Was David Cameron rushed into action by the death of Aylan Kurdi?

Was this a government U-turn prompted by those terrible photographs from the beach at Bodrum?

A Downing Street source admits the images have 'galvanised and shocked leaders, newsrooms and everyone at home' and that people wanted to see what more could be done. But Downing Street are also keen to emphasise that they were already reviewing the UK response to the crisis.

And its not as if Britain has been absent from the response, having rescued 6700 from the Mediterranean and having spent a whopping £900m helping Syrian refugees in the region.

But this week the mood had changed here even before Aylan Kurdi's death.

On Tuesday Yvette Cooper's proposal for the UK to offer places to 10,000 refugees was well received, there was a sense that someone had needed to say it.

Once the pictures were published David Cameron was being warned not to find himself on the wrong side of history by failing to help the desperate.

So perhaps the Prime Minister would have reached this point anyway - we don't know. But today's announcement in Portugal, before Parliament has even returned from recess, felt like it had been rushed out.

Will it help? Well it will certainly help those who are brought here from the camps around Syria and it might persuade a few that they should not risk their families' lives at sea.

But the bigger problems driving this migration remain; Syria, Libya, Sudan, Eritrea. These will not be so easily fixed.