1. Stephen Glenn Charles Hilton was born on 25 August 1969 and is an English and American political commentator, former political adviser, and contributor for Fox News Channel.
22 Facts About Steve Hilton
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Steve Hilton served as director of strategy for the British Prime Minister David Cameron from 2010 to 2012.
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Steve Hilton hosted The Next Revolution, a weekly current affairs show for Fox News from 2017 to 2023.
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Steve Hilton is a proponent of what he calls "positive populism" and a strong endorser of US President Donald Trump.
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Steve Hilton was a co-founder of Crowdpac, but resigned as CEO in 2018 due to conflicting values with the company.
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Steve Hilton was given a bursary to Christ's Hospital School in Horsham in Sussex, before studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at New College at Oxford University.
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In 2005, Steve Hilton lost to future Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove in the selection process for the Surrey Heath constituency of Parliament.
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Steve Hilton talked of the need to "replace" the traditionally minded grassroots membership of the Conservative Party, which he considered to be preventing the party from adopting a more metropolitan attitude for social issues.
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Steve Hilton was satirised by the BBC comedy The Thick of It as the herbal-tea drinking publicist Stewart Pearson.
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Steve Hilton was director of strategy for the UK prime minister David Cameron from 2010 to 2012.
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In May 2015, Steve Hilton joined the UK research institute Policy Exchange as a visiting scholar.
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Steve Hilton is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller More Human: Designing A World Where People Come First, published in May 2015.
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Steve Hilton spent a year as a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, has been a scholar at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and has taught at Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.
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In 2023, Steve Hilton initiated Golden Together, a bipartisan research institute, with Lanhee Chen and Gloria Romero.
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Steve Hilton was criticised for not rebutting his guest Ann Coulter when she falsely asserted that a recording of migrant children who were separated from their parents by the Trump administration crying were actors.
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In March 2019, Steve Hilton claimed that CNN, MSNBC, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper as well as Democratic congress members Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell were the "real agents of Putin" for playing a role in "dividing" the United States over the myriad links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies.
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In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and soon after social distancing measures and lockdowns were implemented, Steve Hilton recommended that President Donald Trump end the measures.
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Steve Hilton criticised "our ruling class and their TV mouthpieces [for] whipping up fear over this virus".
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Steve Hilton suggested that "the cure could be worse than the disease"; or more specifically that the long-term public health consequences resulting from the economic damage of a lockdown would be worse than the short-term public health consequences of the virus itself.
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Trump later appeared to mimic what Steve Hilton said in one of his tweets.
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In January 2021, Steve Hilton asserted that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the most likely source of the COVID-19 virus and claimed that Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical advisor to the president, commissioned the work which resulted in the virus's development.
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Steve Hilton is married to Rachel Whetstone, a former aide to Michael Howard, former head of communications at Google, former senior vice-president of policy and communications of Uber, and current chief communications officer of Netflix.