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, spending four weeks 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.