Vaughn Palmer: Facing polling disaster, can B.C. NDP recover or just get worse?

Vaughn Palmer: Facing polling disaster, can B.C. NDP recover or just get worse?

VICTORIA — For the first time since taking office in 2017, the B.C. New Democrats are confronted with evidence of a shocking and perhaps irreversible decline in their political fortunes and those of Premier David Eby.

338 B.C. Update: Conservatives Pull Ahead

The B.C. New Democrats and Premier David Eby could be in serious public opinion trouble. With their Conservative rivals set to choose a permanent leader at the end of the month, the NDP now trails the Conservative Party of British Columbia by 10 points in the latest poll from the Angus Reid Institute (ARI).Compared to ARI’s previous B.C. survey, the NDP slipped six points — movement well beyond the poll’s estimated margin of error — while the Gr…