Could a British Fox News personality fix Republicans’ losing streak in California?

Steve Hilton, once an adviser to David Cameron, sees signs of Democrats' grip on the state slackening - but the Trump factor could prove tricky

California is usually regarded as a political graveyard for ambitious Republicans, but Steve Hilton, the smiling, bald-headed former British political consultant turned Fox News personality, has a few theories of how to turn that around.

Theory number one is that the Democrats, who have not lost a statewide election in almost 20 years and enjoy a supermajority in the California legislature, make the argument for change more or less by themselves, because the state has become too expensive for many of its residents and is mired in a steep budgetary crisis.