What a waste of energy. After everyone got angry at the Tories’ rounding-up plans, the government admits it can’t find most people who’ll be deported to Rwanda.

The announcement that, after the Safety of Rwanda Bill was passed by Parliament last week, 5,700 people had been identified for deportation was met with widespread outrage and protest.

But now the government has admitted that only 2,143 of them are reporting to the Home Office and can be located for detention.

The BBC has quoted former Border Force chief immigration officer Kevin Saunders, who said the disappearances showed the Rwanda scheme was working as a deterrent – but this seems nonsensical.

If people who have managed to get to the UK have then disappeared and cannot be found here, then they have achieved their aim and are now living somewhere in this country. To others, that should be encouragement, not deterrent!

The government is protesting that nobody in the group is actually missing and it could contact everyone in the firing line for removal to Rwanda if necessary. But that just forces the question: why hasn’t it?

Health Secretary Victoria Atkins, doing the morning media round, told Sky News that nobody who has failed to report in should believe they will get away with staying in the UK: “They will be found and they will be removed.”

But the evidence suggests this is wishful thinking.

This Writer’s opinion is that Tory service cuts mean the government no longer has the personnel available to keep track of asylum-seekers who are supposed to be reporting to them.

Indeed, if the Tories had not cut the number of people working on illegal immigration in the first place, the so-called ‘small boats crisis’ might never have happened. Labour had it well under control when that party was running the government prior to 2010.

Never forget that this is a problem the Tories created for themselves because of ideological idiocy.

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