The Foreign Office finally managed to load 300 Britons onto a plane at Tripoli, but only after it had borrowed the jet from BP.
The plane the Government had intended to use to evacuate Britons waited on the runway at Gatwick airport for 10 hours before taking off late on Wednesday night.
Mr Hague admitted the efforts had been a failure and said he would establish a review to investigate. Portugal, Turkey, France and the EU had already pulled out thousands of citizens.
Mr Cameron was also out of step with international efforts to impose fresh sanctions on the Gaddafi regime. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, called for “swift and concrete” measures and the White House said it was ready to reimpose penalties.
However, Mr Cameron said the regime could still respond to calls for change. “Sanctions are always an option for the future if what we’re seeing in Libya continues,” he said."
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