Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's campaign manager Jenni Byrne says she won't be running her party's campaign in the next federal election and stands by her decision not to have pivoted the message in the last campaign to focus more on the threat posed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
In her first post-election interview, Byrne told the Beyond a Ballot podcast she's currently providing Poilievre and the caucus with some advice on policy files.
"I speak to people on a daily basis and I'm going to continue to do that, but I've stepped back from the day-to-day and I'm not going to run the next campaign," she said on the podcast released Friday.
In the weeks after the spring vote, pressure mounted on Poilievre to fire Byrne, who critics hold responsible for the Conservatives squ