</ref> Career Chapman began his career at the Daily Mail, working for the title for 17 years. He was named one of the UK's 100 best connected men in 2016 by GQ magazine. He was appointed Chief of Staff at the new Department for Exiting the European Union in 2016 working for the minister David Davis. He ceased working for Davis in the summer of 2017. Chapman became a partner at London-based PR firm Bell Pottinger in 2017, shortly before the company declared bankruptcy. In summer 2017 Chapman began tweeting his proposals for a new centrist political party, 'The Democrats', opposed to Brexit. Personal life His wife is Greek-born jeweller Erato Porphyrios. They married on the island of Spetses in 2004. They had a son in September 2006, and a second son in October 2009.