Published Jun. 22, 2026at6:00am
As news has spread in U.K. political circles that Steve Hilton will be the Republican candidate for governor of California — with an outside chance of taking power in one of the United States’ biggest and wealthiest states — reactions among friends and former colleagues, including former government ministers who spoke to The Standard, have ranged from admiration to something close to bewilderment.
Those who worked with the shaven-headed “blue sky” thinker in the Conservative Party from the early 1990s and, 20 years later, watched him operate as director of strategy for then-Prime Minister David Cameron, are impressed
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