not continue hosting the program following his appointment as Downing Street Director of Communications. In May 2021, it was announced that Harri would be joining GB News as co-host of a weekly news and discussion programme. On 13 July 2021, Harri took the knee on GB News to show support for the England football team's kneeling for anti-racism; following backlash from viewers, GB News suspended him indefinitely for failing to maintain the editorial standards expected by the network. Shortly afterwards, he resigned from GB News, having written in The Sunday Times that the channel was "becoming an absurd parody" that was replicating cancel culture on the far right. Public relations After leaving the BBC at the end of 2007, he was approached to work for Conservative Party leader David Cameron, but joined London public relations agency Fleishman-Hillard as a senior policy advisor, reportedly spending four days as an adviser to Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. In May 2008, he was appointed communications director for Mayor of London Boris Johnson's administration at London City Hall. Harri joined News UK in May 2012 as a director of communications and corporate affairs, but left in December 2015, remarking that he was leaving with the "job done" after the fallout over phone hacking at the company. He then joined Virgin Media owner Liberty Global in February 2016 as their managing director of external communications. He left the role in December 2017. In May 2018, Harri took a part-time role with London PR firm Hanover Communications as a vice president, for GQ magazine as a contributing political editor, and also for Hydro Industries, a water treatment company based in Llanelli where he is a director. Brexit/Boris Johnson Harri is a critic of Brexit. After Johnson likened Prime Minister Theresa May's Chequers Brexit agreement to a "suicide vest" around the British constitution in September 2018, Harri criticised Johnson for "[joking] about suicide vests" and being "sexually incontinent", saying he was "digging his political grave" with his comments. He also said Johnson had become "more tribal, and tribal within the tribe, so that he would now be—if he were to become leader—a hugely divisive figure". Harri was a board director of Hawthorn Advisors, a communications consultancy based in London and co-founded by Conservative Party co-chair Ben Elliot in 2013. Hawthorn advised and lobbied the government on behalf of Huawei, a firm with close ties to the Chinese