UK switches party leader mid term
I was wondering as I read about the UK Labour prime minister leaving office voluntarily part way through his term to make way for a more popular choice as leader – has something like this ever happened in Canada?
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Kate
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CE 08:53 on 2026-06-22 Permalink
This doesn’t look too much different from Trudeau’s resignation last year.
Kate 09:16 on 2026-06-22 Permalink
Short memory here. You’re right.
Joey 09:18 on 2026-06-22 Permalink
It was a voluntary resignation but the lede makes it clear that his choices were quite limited – “… forced out by his own party after missteps and mistakes…”
Same thing more or less happened to Francois Legault earlier this year (though obviously at different moments in both his career and his mandate, but broadly…).