article_snippet.sent: The Labour leader and Ed Miliband party’s spin machine prompted the most bitter row of the General Election campaign so far by suggesting that David Cameron bore personal responsibility for drownings of refugees in the Mediterranean.
article_snippet.sent: I think it is quite distasteful, actually, to reduce this total human tragedy of hundreds of people dying out in the Mediterranean to a political point-scoring blame game, particularly, I have to say, from a party that of course brought us into an illegal invasion in Iraq where there was no planning at all for the aftermath.
article_snippet.sent: Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said there should be ‘a little more adherence to the facts as to who is ending up on these boats, why these boats are and what we can do about it to stop this terrible human tragedy’.
article_snippet.sent: Look, what this is about is saying very clearly to the British people that there is a huge issue we face as a country which is learning the lessons of the 2003 Iraq War.
article_snippet.sent: Labour’s shadow defence secretary Vernon Coaker was forced to concede that Mr Cameron is not responsible for migrant deaths in the Mediterranean.
article_snippet.sent: Nobody would want to say that the Prime Minister, as a human being, would want to see the terrible things we have seen in the Med,’ Labour’s shadow defence secretary Vernon Coaker said.
article_snippet.sent: In a bruising interview with the BBC’s Andrew Neil, Labour’s shadow defence secretary Vernon Coaker also struggled to explain when Mr Miliband had raised