Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill reflects on recent political responses to the crisis of migrant voyages on the Mediterranean and how inaction has added to the rising death toll.

As many as 950 people were feared dead after a fishing boat packed with migrants capsized off the Libyan coast in what may be one of the worst disasters of the Mediterranean migrant crisis, officials said.

Up to 300 people are now unaccounted for after boats carrying migrants sank in the Mediterranean, according to the UN Refugee Agency.

The UK government’s refusal to support future search and rescue missions to save desperate immigrants trying to reach Europe has been condemned by campaigners.

TWO THINGS I pleasurably waste a lot of time on are property supplements and travel websites.

More than 50 million people were forcibly uprooted worldwide at the end of last year, the highest level since after the Second World War, as people fled crises from Syria to South Sudan, the UN refugee agency said.