The days leading up to John Rustad’s resignation played out like a dramatic soap opera of secret meetings, legal gymnastics and even a gingerbread making competition.

The climax came Wednesday with the party announcing Rustad’s removal, and the denouement came Thursday , when an at times emotional Rustad bid his job as leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia farewell.

That followed an unprecedented 24 hours where there appeared to be two leaders of the B.C. Conservatives: Surrey-White Rock MLA Trevor Halford, who had been appointed by the party’s board of directors after being endorsed by a majority of caucus, and a defiant Rustad who insisted the party had no legal mechanism to force him out.

So how did we get here? And what’s next for the party that forced the collaps

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