KUALA LUMPUR, May 15 — Beaten Barisan Nasional Youth (BN) Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin has admitted that coalition leaders lost power because they had become so confident of their invincibility.

The 42-year-old also admitted that facts signalling loss of public support had been presented, but said leaders were so detached from reality they swept aside all criticism and refused to accept them. 

“What happened was we became delusional; we got drunk on our own Kool-Aid and we got carried away,” he said in an interview with Singapore broadcast network Channel News Asia.