labourpress:

Yvette Cooper, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, commenting on reports that hundreds of people have drowned after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, said:

“Today’s dreadful and distressing tragedy shows how urgently we need EU and international action to prevent thousands of people from…

“It is immoral to turn our backs and leave people to drown in order to deter other desperate travellers - and of course it hasn’t worked. “

(via labourpress)