UK Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2017

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Kind of seems like an odd move, didn't lib dems do better than most expected?

They did slightly better than expected on election day in terms of seats, but they far far worse than expected a few months ago. This was supposed to be a golden opportunity for the LibDems to make a comeback what with Labour going far left and with the LibDems positioning themselves as the "Remain Party" and going all out to appeal to the 48%...