By Canadian Press

Nathan Cullen joins long list of NDP MPs who won’t seek re-election

Mar 1, 2019 | 3:57 PM

OTTAWA — Nathan Cullen, one of the NDP’s best known and most effective MPs, is calling it quits.

He’s announcing he won’t seek re-election this fall.

That makes 13 of the 44 New Democrats elected in 2015 who won’t be running again.

Cullen’s departure is a blow to NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, who just won his own seat in the House of Commons in a British Columbia byelection earlier this week.

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Had Singh lost the byelection, Cullen would have come under heavy pressure to run for leader.

Cullen has represented the northern B.C. riding of Skeena-Bulkley Valley since 2004.

The Canadian Press