David Cameron's policy guru tells Gove: fly Virgin, not fat-cat BA

Steve Hilton advises education secretary that he should choose Richard Branson's 'upstart' airlineSteve Hilton, the prime minister's director of strategy, has found himself embroiled in a corporate war after privately describing British Airways as "fat cats" and urging a cabinet minister to "fly Branson, he is the upstart".The diktat from Hilton, Downing Street's "blue sky thinker" who has repeatedly startled government insiders with his views, is revealed by the education secretary Michael Gove in an interview to be published this week.Gove said: "When I was explaining to Steve Hilton that I was going off to the States, he said: 'What are you flying? Don't fly British Airways, they are the fat cats. Fly Branson, he is the upstart. We are on the side of the upstarts.'"Talking to the right-of-centre Standpoint magazine, Gove added: "So I'll be flying Virgin."Last night, Downing Street was quick to insist that the views attributed to Hilton were expressed in a personal capacity and point