MARSHA LEDERMAN VANCOUVER — The Globe and Mail updatedThursday, Jul. 18 2013, 10:51 PM EDT
John Cummins has stepped down as leader of the B.C. Conservative Party. Mr.
Cummins tendered his resignation to the party’s board of directors Thursday
evening. The Conservatives, considered a serious threat to the B.C. Liberals during
two by-elections last year, imploded before the provincial vote amid infighting
and demands for Mr. Cummins’s resignation, which Mr. Cummins successfully
deflected by winning a confidence vote.
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B.C. Conservative leader John Cummins to quit
July 18, 2013 - 2:51 PMInfo-Tel Multimedia
A member of the B.C. Conservative
Party's executive says leader John Cummins will quit this evening after a
conference call with the party's board of directors. THE CANADIAN
PRESS/Darryl Dyck
VANCOUVER - B.C. Conservative Leader John Cummins is expected
to quit this evening after a meeting with the party's board of
directors. Dan Brooks, who sits as a party director at
large, confirms the party's leadership has a conference call tonight to
hammer out a few details, but that Cummins has already indicated the
meeting will be his last. Cummins could not be reached for comment. But Brooks says Cummins told the party after the Conservatives' disastrous
showing in May that he would step down when the party had some time to
work out how a replacement would be chosen, though Brooks wouldn't
divulge those details. The Conservatives, considered a
serious threat to the B.C. Liberals during three byelections last year,
imploded before May's election amid infighting and demands for Cummins'
resignation, which Cummins successfully deflected in a confidence vote. Cummins came a distant third in his own riding and the party managed to garner only 4.8 per cent of the popular vote.
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