Boris Johnson: SAS should be sent into Libya to ‘choke’ traffickers

“The first thing to do is to stop the people who are trafficking in human lives. I think sending over warship is entirely right, I myself would like to see a real commitment to getting to grips with these people and rounding.

“There are people on the northern literal of Mediterranean who are actively conniving in murder because they are sending people to their deaths in unseaworthy vessels.

Asked if military personnel should be sent into Libya, he said: “I think you need to choke of the problem at source, we need to stop these people being put into boats … I think isn’t the tradition that you don’t discuss the us of special forces? But you need to do something.”

Meanwhile in Brighton there is a protest on Britain’s response to the deaths.