Psychic Simone Simmons says that Diana, in ‘the only political thing she’s ever said’, told her she must support Brexit. Surely that will silence the remoaners …

One never needs paranormal powers to predict that we will soon be due another intervention from Simone Simmons, Princess Diana’s psychic and “energy healer”. I had only one telephone conversation with Simmons, 19 years ago, during which she breathed reverentially that she would NEVER, EVER speak about Princess Di. Needless to say, she has barely shut up about her since the initial fear of looking grasping died down, and her latest is a real eye-catcher.

As Simmons puts it: “It’s very strange how I can still hear her.” Very – especially over the sound of the cash registers. But do go on: “I hear her voice speaking to me about world events, and about being desperately in love with her grandchildren.”

Mmm. At this point, Simmons makes the classic medium’s mistake of straying into specifics. Still, who can blame her when we get the final piece of the Brexit puzzle: the revelation that Princess Di was a leaver.

“I know a lot of people aren’t going to like it,” hazards Simmons, “but she said we’ve got to vote for Brexit. Britain was great, economically and production-wise and before we joined the EU. She was interested in the referendum, and suggested I vote to leave because Britain was really great before the EU. That’s the only political thing she’s ever said – because she loved the country.”

So there you have it. If you’re one of those remoaners still struggling to accept the result, let this otherworldly intervention serve as the ultimate chastener. Are you really going to stand in the way of what Princess Diana would have wanted? Well, are you?