The Rwandan government claims it is owed £100m by the UK for payments due under an asylum agreement that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer cancelled. Rwanda has filed an international arbitration case, arguing the UK has breached the terms of the deal to send some asylum seekers to the East African nation. Under the deal, which was signed by the previous Conservative government, the UK agreed to make payments to Rwanda to host asylum seekers who had arrived illegally in Britain. A Home Office spokesperson said: "The previous government's Rwanda policy wasted vast sums of taxpayer time and money. The previous Conservative government spent approximately £700m on the Rwanda policy, intended to deter migrants from crossing the English Channel in small boats.