Why would Zak Kirkup concede defeat just two weeks out from WA’s election?

It was an extraordinary and highly risky admission by a party leader just two weeks out from a state election.

WA Liberal leader Zak Kirkup admitted what Liberals have been privately saying for months, that Labor is on track to win the election comfortably.

“That doesn’t mean we stop fighting, that doesn’t mean we stop working to get as many Liberals over the line as possible,” he said.

While it comes as no surprise that Labor is on track to win, it is an unprecedented move for a party leader to make the admission while campaigning is still underway.