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When UK Prime Minister Theresa May shocked the electorate by calling for a snap election on June 8, the pundits overwhelmingly sided with the Conservative Party which was more stable and united. The Labour Party was in disarray and the odds were stacked against them.

Former Foreign Secretary David Miliband, a Labour heavyweight, predicted that this would be the biggest defeat for the Labour party since World War Two to the Tories. This came after the Labour Party lost Copeland, a traditional Labour seat in a by-election held at the beginning of this year.

Yet, as I write this, the Labour Party has done the impossible. They defied the odds. They have managed to add 30 additional seats from the previous election. This has resulted in a hung parliament, dealing a severe blow to May’s government which went into the polls thinking that it would be a walk in the park.

This is quite similar to what is happening in Malaysia. A fractured opposition coalition, like the Labour Party, entering a general election on the back of a crushing by-election defeat.

Three lessons to extract from the result of the UK election...

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