A Fox News commentator and former aide to David Cameron has announced he is standing to be governor of California.
Steve Hilton, 55, a dual British-American citizen, moved to the US in 2012 after serving as Cameron’s director of strategy in Downing Street. He has since worked as a pundit on Fox News and hosted his own show on the right-wing network for six years until 2023.
A Republican and a fervent backer of President Trump, Hilton wrote a book, Califailure: Reversing the Ruin of America’s Worst-Run State, detailing his solutions to the state’s problems that he said stemmed from liberal incompetence.
Hilton with David Cameron
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He told Fox that he was hoping to “make California golden again”, especially for the “working people” of the state. “A big
