Bassett was born in Dublin and attended O'Connell School.
[1] He served as an ambassador from Ireland to Canada, Jamaica, and the Bahamas and joint Secretary to the British–Irish Intergovernmental Conference in Belfast before retiring in October 2016.
He is the senior fellow for EU affairs at the centre-right think tank Policy Exchange.
[3][better source needed] Bassett alleged that Varadkar "had done everything in his power to thwart the democratic outcome in the UK [the Brexit vote in 2016] ...
Opposing a fair deal for the UK was never in Ireland's interests.