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ohan Silva will still be pushing this agenda,
as will ministers such as Jeremy Hunt, Ed
Vaizey and, to an extent, George Osborne.
There’s a cartoon-like impression of
Steve as the California-speaking image man.
The real Steve has multiple dimensions and
operates on a spectrum that goes from TV
shots of huskies through to the finer points
of early years education policy. He was vital
in repositioning the “nasty party” as green,
socially liberal and silicon savvy. But, he was
also a senior political adviser who didn’t read
newspapers, which helped explain why he was
considered an accident waiting to happen by
the No10 press office.
Steve Hilton is refreshing in that he
doesn’t judge every policy through the prism
of the next day’s headlines. There are plenty
of other people to do that. indeed, the changes
he introduced to make government more
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