article_snippet.sent: Earlier, Ms Evans described the situation as a 'devastating tragedy', but insisted Britain needed to be careful not to 'encourage' fleeing refugees from moving to the UK.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Evans said: 'We all want to welcome people here, but as idealistic as We all might want to be - and it's in We all nature to want to help everybody - you can't, unfortunately.
article_snippet.sent: Asked how many refugees Britain should take, Ms Evans replied: 'We have got to be talking thousands rather than tens of thousands.'
article_snippet.sent: It comes after Mr Miliband this morning launched a furious attack on David Cameron and other EU leaders for leaving refugees to drown by stopping search and rescue missions in the Mediterranean.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband said it was unacceptable to abandon thousands of immigrants boarding makeshift boats in Africa in the hope of making it to Europe.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband also called on the UK to take a 'fare share' of refugees fleeing civil war.
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband remarks came amid growing alarm over the number of desperate families risking their lives to escape the raging civil wars in the Middle East and North Africa.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking in Manchester this morning, Ed Miliband attacked the decision to abandon European rescue missions.
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband said: 'the decision to abandon European rescue missions was a mistake and the decision to abandon European rescue missions should be reversed.'