Mick Jagger forecast Tory win in the General Election weeks before

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Sir Mick beat the pollsters and correctly forecast the Conservatives victory
Jim Messina, a former White House deputy chief of staff, said Rolling Stones frontman is a ‘savvy political observer'
He said Sir Mick made prediction weeks before polling day when experts believed result would be tight

By Daniel Martin, Chief Political Correspondent For The Daily Mail

Published: 18:09 EST, 17 May 2015 | Updated: 21:37 EST, 17 May 2015

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Mick Jagger beat the pollsters and correctly forecast the Tory victory in the general election, the party’s former US adviser has revealed.

Jim Messina, a former White House deputy chief of staff under President Barack Obama, said the Rolling Stones frontman was ‘one of the savviest political observers I’ve come across’.

He said Sir Mick had forecast the win weeks before polling day, at a time when experts believed there would be a tight result.

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Satisfaction: Sir Mick Jagger (left) beat the pollsters and correctly forecast the Tory victory in the general election, the party’s former US adviser Jim Messina (right) has revealed

Mr Messina told Politico magazine: ‘Mick has been a bit of a political junkie his whole life,’ adding that he had become a ‘master observer’ of UK and US politics by reading voraciously when he is on tour.

He recounted how the pair had met at a dinner before the election when the Tories were trailing in the polls.

‘You’re going to win,’ Sir Mick told him. Mr Messina asked: ‘Why do you think so?’ Sir Mick replied that he was not backing any candidate in the election.

But he knew Mr Cameron would win because ‘the average guy thinks Cameron makes tough decisions and things are getting a bit better.

‘They won’t change from that. Your opponent has come across like he is a retreat to the past.’

David Cameron gives first interview since General Election

Sir Mick told Mr Messina that David Cameron (pictured) would win because ‘the average guy thinks Cameron makes tough decisions and things are getting a bit better'