B.C. Conservatives oust recently re-elected leader

Just weeks after electing Dan Brooks to the party's top job for a second time, the B.C. Conservative Party is once again hunting for aleader.

Brooks says the party's board has thrown him out after ruling there was no quorum at the meeting that approved his candidacy forthe September leadership race.

The 41-year-oldVanderhoofbusinessman was elected leader of the B.C. Conservatives in 2014 but resigned in January and then ran againin September,narrowly winning on a second ballot.

Brooks took to Twitter where he said being the leader of B.C. Conservative Party is like being in an abusive relationship.

"You want itto work so you stay and endure the abuse and try to fix it," he tweeted.

According to Brooks, the board could have kept him on as interim leader but they do not want him.

The B.C. Conservatives last won a seat in the Legislature in 1978.