25-04-2025
Steve Hilton: Why I'm running for California governor
Steve Hilton came to California on a 12-month sabbatical from the heart of power in Downing Street primarily because his wife, Rachel Whetstone, was running communications for Google.
But David Cameron's 'shaven-headed guru', who was godfather to Cameron's first son and encouraged the Conservative leader to hug a husky in the Arctic and embrace a modernising agenda, never came back.
Hilton instead became 'a proud American', raising his right hand and taking the oath of allegiance to become a US citizen in 2021. Now the personal odyssey that took him from a scholarship at Christ's Hospital school in Horsham to a Fox News primetime show in Los Angeles has taken another extraordinary twist: this week he announced his campaign to follow in the footsteps of
