Penticton-Summerland MLA Amelia Boultbee is leaving the B.C. Conservative caucus, and she blames Party Leader John Rustad for her exit.

"If you told me a year ago I'd be standing here resigning, I wouldn't have believed you," Boultbee told reporters.

Rustad was cited as the direct reason for her decision, with Boutlbee saying that his leadership was wrecking the party.

"This is not the person I thought he was," Boutlbee said of Rustad.

Boultbee called on Rustad to resign from leadership.

In recent weeks, Rustad has faced a series of leaks and inter-party turmoil, including searches of phones belonging to party MLAs and culminating in a press conference where Rustad's chief of staff cut off a Canadian Press reporter over a question on whether he was paranoid.

That search came shortl

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