‘Labour sure to win Wakefield’: more tips from the Mystic Meg of politics

Prof Jon Tonge has won most of his political bets, so here are some predictions from a trumped-up Nostradamus'

Prof Jon Tonge has faced remorseless teasing since being hailed as the Mystic Meg of political science" for accurately predicting Monday's confidence vote in Boris Johnson.

When he turned up to a conference in Belfast on Thursday, an academic colleague said the soothsayer has just walked in". And his youngest daughter asked him: If you can see things, how come you can't tell you're a complete loser?"