Steve Hilton

Steve Hilton

Steve Hilton is a British political commentator and former political adviser. He served as director of strategy for the British Prime Minister David Cameron from 2010 to 2012. Since 2017, Hilton has hosted The Next Revolution, a weekly current affairs show for Fox News. He is a proponent of what he calls ‘positive populism’ and a vocal supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump.

About Steve Hilton in brief

Summary Steve HiltonSteve Hilton is a British political commentator and former political adviser. He served as director of strategy for the British Prime Minister David Cameron from 2010 to 2012. Since 2017, Hilton has hosted The Next Revolution, a weekly current affairs show for Fox News. He is a proponent of what he calls ‘positive populism’ and a vocal supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump. Hilton’s parents emigrated from Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He won a scholarship to Christ’s Hospital School in Horsham before studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at New College, Oxford. After graduating, Hilton worked at Conservative Central Office, where he came to know David Cameron and Rachel Whetstone, who became his wife and, later, Senior Vice-President of Policy and Communications for Uber.

In 2005, Hilton lost out to future Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove in the selection process for the Surrey Heath constituency. Hilton is co-founder and former CEO of Crowdpac. com, a Silicon Valley technology start-up. In April 2016, Crowdpac launched a beta service in the UK. Hilton resigned from Crowdpac in May 2018. In May 2015, Hilton joined the UK think tank Policy Exchange as a visiting scholar. His book More Human was published in May 2015.