article_snippet.sent: senior Conservative minister William Hague also defended the Government's intervention in Libya in Libya 2011, helping to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi.
article_snippet.sent: senior Conservative minister William Hague said it would be 'wrong to think that whatever's happened in Libya in the last few years is the cause of this'.
article_snippet.sent: senior Conservative minister William Hague added on BBC Radio 5live: 'Let me remind you of something as well, which is that when Colonel Gaddafi was still in power, there were periods when Colonel Gaddafi simply allowed people to do exactly this, to get into boats and try to go to Europe –
article_snippet.sent: that was one of the ways in which Colonel Gaddafi put pressure on Europe. '
article_snippet.sent: So I don't think that is the change in this situation; I think this is a problem that goes well beyond Libya.'