Conservative campaign leader Jenni Byrne will not carry out the next campaign of the party

Jenni Byrne, the campaign director who blames many people for the loss of the conservative party in the spring elections, says that she will not be in the job next time.

Speaking in an episode of the Podcast Beyond a Stallot that was published on Friday, Mrs. Byrne shot back on critics of her party’s election strategy and said she still believes that the approach was the right one.

The conservatives won more seats and share of the popular mood in the mood of April, but did not form a government despite the impressive lead in the polls for a few months prior to the campaign.

In the aftermath of the loss of the party, there were immediate calls for leader Pierre Poilievre to break the ties with Mrs. Byrne. MPs, party insiders and conservatives of Grassroots held her directly responsible for making choices – including candidate – nominations, campaign messages and media strategy – of which they believed they cost them a victory.

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In her first extensive comments about the campaign, Mrs. Byrne said that there were budgetary and staff decisions that she could have treated differently, although she did not give specific examples, and said she wish she had previously realized that Mr Poilievre would lose his seat.

However, she said that nothing that she could have done differently would have changed the outcome that she found on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ability to turn the elections in favor of the liberals about the issue of US President Donald Trump, as well as the collapse of the NDP mood.

Mrs Byrne said that those who blame her do not understand politics or how campaigns are being carried out.

“They don’t know Pierre. They don’t know the people at senior level that we had in the campaign that was part of discussions or the fact that we made decisions based on research,” she said on the podcast, which was recorded on Tuesday.

The loudest criticism of the conservative campaign during the elections was that Mr Poilievre did not focus enough on the economic and political threat of Mr Trump. Kory Teneycke, the campaign leader of Ontario Doug Ford, accused the federal party of ‘campaign theft’ for losing the management they were in public opinion.

But Mrs. Byrne said that he would concentrate exclusively on Mr Trump, would have been a mistake.

Mr Poilievre’s relationship and Mrs. Byrne dates from decades and she was heavily involved in his successful bid on party leadership in 2022.

She told the podcast that campaign created a new coalition of voters for the party, including many young men who had not been politically involved before.

During the spring election campaign, Mr. Poilievre spoke daily about Mr Trump during his media availability and elsewhere, but the aiming of his entire message on Mr Trump would have alienated that cohort, Mrs. Byrne said.

“From a practical point of view, I don’t know what we would have said every day,” she said, and accused the liberals of trying to lure her party on this subject.

The fact that the conservatives have won 41.3 percent of the votes means that the issues on which they have focused on resonating with voters will continue to do so, she said.

“We have to stay there because we were on the right,” she said. “And Carney can only extinguish his way for so long.”

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The Globe and Mail had previously reported that Mrs. Byrne took a step back from her involvement in the activities of the party.

In the podcast interview she said that she will continue to talk to MPs and others in the party every day and will advise on the following convention, but does not have to be involved in things such as daily budget meetings or preparations for the demand period.

“I think that’s good for the party and also for Pierre,” she said.

By saying that she will not conduct the next general election campaign, Mrs. Byrne called the desire to spend more time focusing on her consultancy.

Poilievre is now trying to win a chair in the Alberta that rides Battle-Crowfoot in an interim election of 18 August. He is also confronted with an assessment of his leadership on the party’s convention in January, of which Mrs Byrne said she believes he will win.

He remains the best choice to lead the party, she said.

“There is no doubt in my mind at all.”