David Cameron's ‘bonkers' guru is now a Trumpist
Steve Hilton! You remember. David Cameron's guru, keen to smash the state and replace it with people being hippies in their lunch hour. He didn't quite dress like Mahatma Gandhi but you could tell it was always on the cards. Blue-sky thinker, enemy of footwear. Nathan Barley of the centre right, commuted to work in a Zorb. Wait, no, I made that last bit up, for a parody. But he could have done. I bet he wanted to.
Over here, he fast became a joke. Most sources agree he inspired the bald, furious Stewart Pearson in The Thick Of It who said things like, 'I like the plasmic nature of your data modelling.' Exiled from the Cameroons for incongruously supporting Brexit (he wore T-shirts; it
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