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By Sophie Huskisson James Cleverly’s one-night trip to Rwanda cost more than £160,000 on flights alone. The Home Secretary visited the country’s capital Kigali on December 4 in a desperate bid to save Rishi Sunak’s failing deportation plan. According to official transparency data published on Thursday night, private charter flights for the visit cost £165,561.53. Mr Cleverly was joined by an entourage of 14 officials to sign a new treaty with Rwanda after the UK’s Supreme Court ruled the scheme to deport migrants there was unlawful. The costs of accommodation, travel in Rwanda and other expens…