article_snippet.sent: In a briefing note sent out before a keynote campaign speech, Labour went further - claiming the crisis was 'in part a direct result' of Mr Cameron foreign policy.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband said this failure had contributed to the crisis today.
article_snippet.sent: A senior Tory source added: 'This takes Labour's relentless negative campaigning to a new low.'
article_snippet.sent: Nick Clegg said the Labour attack was a 'distasteful' attempt to make political capital from the crisis.
article_snippet.sent: Nick Clegg insisted that 'a considerable amount of thought went in by the international community' to the aftermath and 'a huge amount of help and assistance and money has gone into trying to do our bit from outside'.
article_snippet.sent: Nick Clegg acknowledged that it was 'legitimate to say that things then spiral in directions that you can't fully predict'. '
article_snippet.sent: All I would plead for is a little less finger-pointing wisdom from Ed Miliband - when Nick Clegg supported the intervention in the first place - and a little bit more adherence to facts about exactly who is ending up on these boats, why these boats are and what we can now do about it to stop this terrible tragedy,' Nick Clegg said.
article_snippet.sent: But the shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander defended Mr Miliband's attack – and insisted the Prime Minister had failed to plan for the aftermath of Colonel Gaddafi's downfall.
article_snippet.sent: the shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander said: 'It is a failure of post-conflict planning for which the international community bears responsibility.
article_snippet.sent: In the shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander speech to the Chatham House think tank today, Mr Miliband's said: 'The tragedy is that this could have been anticipated. '
article_snippet.sent: Since the action, the failure of post-conflict planning has become obvious.