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‘Campaigns do matter’: Wexit’s Jay Hill votes in Conservative leadership race, resigns CPC membership

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Veteran politician Jay Hill, pictured in 2012, says he supported Erin O'Toole early on in the Conservative leadership race but was 'convinced' to put another contender as his first choice. Now interim leader of the Wexit Party, he said he will resign his CPC membership as it would be 'unethical' to be a member of two parties.The Hill Times file photograph

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BY PALAK MANGAT

August 31, 2020

Political veteran Jay Hill, interim leader of the newly emerged Wexit Party, left his former party, the Conservatives, with one last hurrah by voting in its recent leadership race.

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