Former BC United MLA Elenore Sturko has left the party and joined the BC Conservatives. Sturko, right, elected last month in the Surrey South byelection, is sworn in by clerk Kate Ryan-Lord at the legislature in Victoria, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dirk Meissner
VICTORIA – Another BC United member has left the party to join the Conservative Party of BC just months before the provincial election.
Surrey South MLA Elenore Sturko says in a statement that she’s joining the provincial Conservatives to “rebuild the coalition that’s needed to defeat the NDP.”
Her move comes after Lorne Doerkson, the former BC United caucus chair, defected from the party on Friday, bringing the number of Conservative members of the legislature to four.
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