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Adrian Dix to stay on as B.C. NDP leader, promises review of failed campaign
VANCOUVER – British Columbia’s NDP leader Adrian Dix says he will stay on as leader and pledges to review the party’s failed provincial election campaign.
Dix says he takes full responsibility for the May 14 election loss, admitting he failed to effectively target the Liberal party’s record and communicate the New Democrat’s platform.
He also admits that the way he unveiled his opposition to a proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion hurt the party.
The Opposition New Democrats lost last Tuesday’s election, ending up with fewer seats than the party started with and even lost ridings in traditional NDP territory.
The party entered the campaign with a comfortable lead in public opinion polls, and while that gap closed toward voting day, no one predicted the decisive Liberal victory.
Dix says the party will launch a review of what went wrong in the New Democrat campaign, which he says will spare no one.
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