Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has been under pressure from Umno to hold the general election, and this appears to have intensified after the Federal Court upheld Najib Abdul Razak’s conviction and sentence.

However, former Malaysian Bar president Ambiga Sreenevasan is hoping the premier, who is also an Umno vice-president, would not succumb.

Training her guns on “Umno warlords”, she said Parliament should...