I actually read Tetlock after reading about it on Cummings' website so interested to see it mentioned.
He has that long standing hatred of the EU that lots of Tories have, that I don't really get - been involved in Euro-skeptic politics for a long time, was very against us joining the Euro and campaigned against it IIRC. But he wasn't in favouur of leaving without a deal, so perhaps he thinks that this is the only way to force through change, and break the logjam. When he was in Education he appeared to want to transform the country into a hothousing academy for scientists, something like Singapore. What I find bizarre is that he thinks that this is or was at all possible, given our education system, what most teachers are like etc etc.
It might be more interesting to thing about his character than his politics - What comes over from reading his writing is that he's very clever but lacks empathy - humanistic values are a closed book to him, and he values hard sciences more than anything else. That emotional short circuit that lots of men have. Doesn't come over as someone for whom humility comes naturally either. Most politicians at least pretend to have these qualities. I imagine that dealing with the slowness and customs of standard Parlimentary procedure must be totally enraging for someone like him, what he doesn't seem to get is that this processes are there precisely to hobble lunatics like him. In summary - he'd be great at putting a man on Mars, but I wouldn't let him babysit my kids.