Sir Richard Billing Dearlove is a retired British intelligence officer who was head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), a role known informally as "C", from 1999 until 6 May 2004. He was head of MI6 during the invasion of Iraq. He was criticised by the Iraq Inquiry for providing unverified intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. He was Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2015.
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Sep 16, 2026
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The former MI6 chief will deliver a landmark speech warning Britain is on an 'energy cliff' after prioritising Net Zero over confronting Russia and China.
Reform UK will seize on Dearlove's intervention as establishment validation that Net Zero is a national security disaster and Labour's green agenda has handed Beijing the tools to cripple Britain.