Sunak narrow favourite over Truss for next PM, says ‘Mystic Meg of politics’

Prof Jonathan Tonge, who accurately predicted confidence vote result, says it's a 51/49 call'

The Mystic Meg" professor who accurately predicted the number of Tory MPs who would back Boris Johnson in last month's confidence vote has tentatively cast his runes for the final outcome of the Conservative leadership election.

Without any confidence at all, I'd say Rishi Sunak will become the next prime minister," said Jonathan Tonge, who teaches British politics at the University of Liverpool. But I think it's a 51/49 call because Liz Truss plays pretty well with the Tory party members too.