Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the Liberal Party’s new campaign chair, as some MPs reportedly band together to ask their leader to step down.
Trudeau and the party say Andrew Bevan, a longtime Liberal staff member and volunteer, is taking the reins ahead of the next general election.
Bevan most recently served as an adviser to Trudeau and chief of staff to Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, which involved helping develop this past spring’s budget.
He replaces Jeremy Broadhurst, who quit as national campaign director last month, shortly before the Liberals lost a critical byelection in Montreal.
Following a June byelection loss in Toronto, those developments fuelled calls among some Liberals for Trudeau to resign, which reportedly intensified last week as MPs pushed each other to commit to calling on Trudeau to step down….