Background
Hilton is the son of Hungarian immigrants whose original surname was Hircsák (alternative spelling: Hirtsac), who fled their home during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
Hilton is the son of Hungarian immigrants whose original surname was Hircsák (alternative spelling: Hirtsac), who fled their home during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
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He spent a year as a visiting scholar at Stanford Universities" Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. They came to Britain, initially claiming asylum, and anglicised their name to Hilton. In 2005, Hilton lost out to future Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove in the selection process for the Surrey Heath constituency.
Hilton talked of the need to "replace" the traditionally minded grassroots membership of the Conservative party, which he saw was preventing the party from embracing a more metropolitan attitude on social issues.
lieutenant is alleged that Hilton said "I voted Green" after the Labour landslide of 2001, but since then he has worked with Cameron to re-brand the Conservative party as green and progressive. According to The Economist Hilton "remains appallingly understood".
Hilton was satirised in the British Broadcasting Corporation comedy The Thick of lieutenant as the herbal-tea drinking spin doctor Stewart Pearson. On 2 March 2012, Downing Street announced that Hilton would be a "visiting scholar" at Stanford University"s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies for a year.
His last memo concerned the advocacy of severe cuts in the number of civil servants in the United Kingdom and further welfare cuts.
In May 2015 Hilton joined the United Kingdom think tank Policy Exchange as a visiting scholar. His book More Human was published on 21 May 2015. lieutenant advocates smaller, human-scale organisations and is critical of large governmental and business, including factory farms and banks.
There were reports that Hilton"s "blue sky thinking" caused conflict in Whitehall and, according to Nicholas Watt of The Guardian, Liberal Democrats around deputy prime minister Nick Clegg considered him to be a "refreshing but wacky thinker".