Author Eats His Brexit Book on TV After Getting UK Election Prediction Wrong

This man just ate (some of) his book live on Sky News after making an incorrect #GE2017 prediction @GoodwinMJ pic.twitter.com/13IaFLaJvx

— Sky News (@SkyNews) June 10, 2017

The UK election results were closer than anticipated, and an author who didn’t think Labour would get as much of the vote as they did fulfilled this promise he made:

I'm saying this out loud. I do not believe that Labour, under Jeremy Corbyn, will poll 38%. I will happily eat my new Brexit book if they do

— Matthew Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) May 27, 2017

Labour in fact received 40 percent of the vote, and Matthew Goodwin––a politics professor at the University of Kent––stuck to his word by eating his Brexit book on Sky News today:

Ok. You win. I will be eating my book on Sky News at 4.30pm.

— Matthew Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) June 10, 2017

I also liked the way Sky said: "Don't worry. We have cleared it with health & safety".

— Matthew Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) June 10, 2017

Don't ever say I am not a man of my word pic.twitter.com/DIxbYBilAL

— Matthew Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) June 10, 2017

You can watch the clip above, via Sky News.

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