article_snippet.sent: we are better than that.
article_snippet.sent: we can't be leaving people to drown.'
article_snippet.sent: Earlier, Ed Miliband said: 'we cannot stand by as people drown in European waters simply to escape conflict in Libya and Syria.
article_snippet.sent: The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, said the priority for stopping the migrant crisis had to be to stop people boarding boats rather than stepping up patrols in the Mediterranean.
article_snippet.sent: The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg said: '[It is] the human traffickers and smugglers who are peddling this terrible trade which is leading to so many people dying in the Mediterranean. '
article_snippet.sent: And I think if we can do [tackle] that and provide more aid and assistance in North Africa to encourage people to stay put rather than risk life and limb moving great distances, that it seems to The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg is a more sustainable solution than coming up with lots of arbitrary numbers about who takes in which number of migrants from North Africa.
article_snippet.sent: The political row over how to tackle the migrant crisis was sparked after 950 men, women and children drowned this week.
article_snippet.sent: Survivors told of how women and children died 'like rats in a cage' after being locked into the boat's hold by callous traffickers in Libya.
highlights_snippet.sent: Ministers claim rescue missions encourage migrants to attempt the journey .