The Minutes of Sir Richard Dearlove on migration https://minutesof.com/richard-dearlove/on/migration/ Everything Sir Richard Dearlove has said on migration: 3 verbatim quotes from May 2016, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came from. en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:23:26 +0000 Dearlove argues that closing borders to migration is impossible without removing the underlying causes driving https://minutesof.com/q/8f9294d8-9a27-4276-9fec-380f4816e3b2/ https://minutesof.com/q/8f9294d8-9a27-4276-9fec-380f4816e3b2/ “Simply shutting the door on migration is not an option. History tells us that human tides are irresistible unless the gravitational pull that causes them is removed.” — BBC News Mon, 16 May 2016 17:13:13 +0000 migration Dearlove invokes Rome's fall to barbarian migration as a historical precedent for today's challenges. https://minutesof.com/q/edf50a20-3a65-47fa-ba90-6d83b390bca3/ https://minutesof.com/q/edf50a20-3a65-47fa-ba90-6d83b390bca3/ “Edward Gibbon elegantly charted how Rome, with all its civic and administrative sophistication and military prowess, could not stop its empire being overrun by the mass movement of Europe's tribes.” — BBC News Mon, 16 May 2016 17:13:13 +0000 migration Dearlove warns EU faces populist uprising if it fails to control migration crisis effectively. https://minutesof.com/q/d4768ca7-159e-4499-abbd-21fae5bf8006/ https://minutesof.com/q/d4768ca7-159e-4499-abbd-21fae5bf8006/ “If Europe cannot act together to persuade a majority of its citizens that it can gain control of its migratory crisis, then the EU will find itself at the mercy of a populist uprising, which is already stirring.” — BBC News Mon, 16 May 2016 17:13:13 +0000 migration