article_snippet.sent: Mr Cameron and the former foreign secretary William Hague, speaking in Lincoln today, were accused of neglecting Libya after helping to topple Colonel Gaddafi .
article_snippet.sent: A senior Tory source pointed out that Mr Miliband had supported the intervention in Libya which Mr Miliband now blamed for causing the crisis.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Cameron was given a rapturous reception in Tripoli in September 2011 after flying into the capital following the Nato bombing campaign which allowed rebels to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi .
article_snippet.sent: Libyan rebels overthrew the country's dictator Colonel Gaddafi (right) with the support of British, French and US airstrikes .
article_snippet.sent: David Cameron was wrong to assume that Libya's political culture and institutions could be left to evolve and transform on Libya's political culture and institutions own. '
article_snippet.sent: And Britain could have played It part in ensuring the international community stood by the people of Libya in practice rather than standing behind the unfounded hopes of potential progress only in principle.'
article_snippet.sent: In March 2011 Labour and Tory MPs united to back military action against Libya to stop Muammar Gaddafi committing a ‘bloody massacre’.
article_snippet.sent: The Commons vote came after the UN Security Council passed a motion giving Britain, France and the US the authority to use ‘all necessary measures’ to protect Libyan civilians.
article_snippet.sent: Labour leader Ed Miliband said Labour leader Ed Miliband supported military action against Libya, arguing military action against Libya was "a just cause, with a feasible mission, and military action against Libya has international support".
article_snippet.sent: Less than six months later, in November 2011, after Western bombing raids allowed Libya’s rebel forces to sweep the Muammar Gaddafi regime from power, Mr Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy flew into Tripoli.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Cameron praised the Libyan fighters as ‘lions’ and described the Libyan fighters revolt as the moment ‘when the Arab Spring could become an Arab Summer’ in which ‘we see democracy advance in other countries too’.
highlights_snippet.sent: Labour leader  attacked the Prime Minister's 2011 intervention in Libya .
  