John Rustad officially submitted his resignation as the leader of the B.C. Conservative party to caucus this morning, a day after over half the party’s MLAs and the party board voted to remove him and install South Surrey-White Rock MLA Trevor Halford as interim leader.

“I will be remaining an MLA and carrying out the work that needs to be done with regards to representing my riding of Nechako Lakes,” said Rustad. “It’s been a great honour building this party, taking this thing from where it was, and bringing the Conservative Party back to life in this province.”

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