 He remained as leader for several months, although he could not enter the chamber of the House of Commons.Meighen sought to move the Tories to the left, in order to undercut the Liberals and to take support away from the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF, the predecessor of the New Democratic Party (NDP)).To that end, he sought to draft the Liberal-Progressive premier of Manitoba, John Bracken, to lead the Conservatives.