Boris Johnson took a break from making £5 million (by now) from extra-curricular activities to make a rare return to his actual job – being an MP.

He revisited Parliament to attack Labour MPs for refusing to back his hare-brained scheme to send migrants to Rwanda, after they come across the Channel in boats to get to the UK.

And Home Secretary Suella Braverman joined him in calling on Labour to “back control over our borders and back the British people”.

But the plan doesn’t even have the full support of Conservatives in Parliament, as Tory Caroline Nokes made abundantly clear on the BBC’s Politics Live.

Watch her describe the whole policy as an “expensive white elephant”:

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