Barbara Janke to step down as Lib Dem leader in Bristol
Via the BBC:
Barbara Janke said she would stand down as council leader and as leader of the Liberal Democrat group.
Ms Janke announced her decision to the Lib Dem-controlled authority’s cabinet earlier. She said she made the decision as she approached her 65th birthday.
She said it had been an “enormous privilege” to serve as council leader in 2003-2004, 2005-2007 and from 2009 to the present.
She will remain leader of the Lib Dem group until the group’s annual meeting on 8 May, when a new leader will be chosen.
I don't know her actual words but she is neither 'stepping down' nor 'resigning', but as the job comes to an end at the annual meeting of the council and she has to stand to be elected if she wants to carry on, she has simply said that she will not be putting her name forward this time. That is rather different to what some in the media are trying to present it as.