b'Husband: She decides where we live, wherereporting to Vice President Jyrki Katainen, the children go to school and what companywho in return reported to First Vice I work at. Questioner: What do you decidePresident Frans Timmermans. It is the First then? Husband: I decide the family policyVice President who reports to the President on Vietnam and sometimes, gun control.of the Commission At that time (from 2014- It was clear from day minus one that Ashton2019) the President was Jean-Claude was simply not up to the job. This is not aJuncker. gender issue. The author stated in a debateHowever, we were always told that Jonathan - on ArcticPolicy - that the CommissionerHills lowly place in the pecking order of was supremelyunqualified.Free speechCommissioners did not matter. This was in the European Parliament has its limitsbecause Hills portfolio was Financial he was ejected at the behest of the LiberalStability, Financial Services and Capital Democrat MEP chairing the debate. TheMarkets Union. UK electorate has fortunately rumbledthe Liberal Democrats as a group of committedWhat actually happened was this. Soon EU federalists whose commitmentto freeafter the referendum, in July 2016, Hill speech comes to a grinding halt when theyresigned. His portfolio was reallocated and get to Calais.the new UK Commissioner was given the Security Union portfolio. In retrospect, The UKs Commissioner from 2014-2019 wasHills resignation was almost - but not quite Lord Hill, until his resignation post-Brexitand- as irresponsible as his boss former David his replacement by Sir Julian King. Hill was aCameron, who resigned as Prime Minister at career public relations man and Conservative8 AM the morning after the referendum.Party apparatchik. Hill worked alongside former Prime Minister Cameron as a SpecialBut, there was worse. The new UK Political Advisor, seemingly the only reasonCommissioner had been moved from his job for this otherwise baffling appointment. Hillsas UK ambassador in Paris. And that plum qualifications were underwhelming. Andjob was given to David Camerons former where was he - as the UKs Commissioner -Chief of Staff, and Eton contemporary, in the Commissions pecking order? Hill wasEdward David Llewellyn. These manoeuvres one of approximately eight commissionersarguably do David Cameron credit as a human being - he was loyal to his friend. But, where was the UKs national interest?22'