No satisfaction on the election for Sir Mick

SIR Mick Jagger is a political soothsayer — he correctly predicted that David Cameron would win the 2015 election outright. The Londoner hoped to extract more of his wisdom at a dinner at Petersham Nurseries in Richmond last night.

Did he predict the hung Parliament? “No, I did not predict this one. Not many people did,” said Sir Mick, pictured with actress Sienna Miller. “I have some very good friends who are better predictors than me. They got it wrong too.”

But don’t write him o f f. T h e Ro l l i n g Stone is highly praised in political circles. Jim Messina, who worked on Theresa M ay ’s election campaign, called him “one of the savviest political obser vers I’ve come across”. Messina revealed that

Mick had told him

MOST people want to leave the EU to get away from red tape but not Tracy, Marchioness of Worcester, who campaigns on international pig welfare and hosted the Farms Not Factories “you’re going to win” while working on the 2015 Tory campaign, pointing out that “the average guy thinks David Cameron makes tough decisions and things are getting better”.

Does Sir Mick have sympathy for Theresa? “Sorry for her?” he mused. “So you do?” we ventured. “No, I didn’t say that. I obviously think in hindsight it was a mistake to call an election,” he went on. “Having said that, it’s a traditional thing in politics that when you inherit the prime ministership you go to the country — it’s normal.” And how’s Brexit going? “I don’t think anybody knows.”

The snake -hipped singer has always danced around questions with a deftness Boris Johnson can only dream of, and then went off to take his place at the Farms Not Factories dinner — see below — next to Sienna Miller, something else Boris could only dream of.

dinner. “I’m not a Brexiteer that wants free trade,” she said at the charity dinner last night. “I’m one that says we should protect our farmers from low EU standards.” Sounds like a crackling idea.