Steve Hilton

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PBD Podcast · PBD Interview: Steve Hilton - How California Became America’s BIGGEST Political Failure · 21 May 2026 podcast

I mean, I'll give you a specific story that really opened my eyes.

I mean, it's a silly story, but it kind of showed me.

So one of the projects that I led-

initiated and led was, we called it the Red Tape Challenge or something like that, to reduce bureaucracy in the UK.

This is going back, must have been, when was it?

2010, you know, around that, the first, I was only there for two years.

There we are.

Look at that.

It's ancient history, but there we are.

Steve Hilton was the primary architect of the red tape challenge.

Right, so the idea was to, it's actually, the technical term for it now, you would say, is reverse sunsetting, where we all know about sunsetting regulations.

You pass something, you say, this only lasts for five years.

Unless we renew it, it expires.

I wanted to have a concept of reverse sunsetting where we just take the whole stock of regulations that are on the books and change the defaults.

So instead of saying we're going to get rid of this one and get rid of that, you basically said we're going to get rid of all of it.

Let's choose the regulations that we want to keep.

That was the concept.

I remember we had input from the public.

We crowdsourced some stuff.

And then we started having the meetings with the bureaucrats and the civil servants.

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