B.C.'s Conservative leader resigns as her caucus thins
Global News reports that Kerry-Lynne Findlay has resigned as leader of the B.C. Conservatives, hours after Surrey-Serpentine River MLA Linda Hepner said she was resigning from caucus. CBC's account puts the resignation inside a wider picture: speculation about a snap election, and 14 MLAs who have resigned since August. Order of events is not the same thing as cause, but the arithmetic is stark either way. A single leadership exit can be absorbed; a caucus that has lost 14 members since August is the harder problem, and the same-day timing of these two resignations suggests the pressure was not easing.
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Leaders come and go; the count is the thing that lingers. A caucus that has shed 14 members since August is a slower repair than a leadership race.
Caucus math cuts both ways — a smaller room is easier to keep in line, right up until someone notices how small the room is.