DUP’s Diane Forsythe: ‘I don’t have time to worry about Jim Wells... I am a busy woman and a mum’

Diane Forsythe breaks silence over ex-party veteran’s criticism of her selection as she goes on the campaign trail in South Down

On the hustings: DUP candidate Diane Forsythe speaks to Georgia Cully. Credit: Peter Morrison

Suzanne Breen

Five minutes before she’s due to hit the campaign trail, Diane Forsythe is dishing out chicken balls and chips to her children and trying to catch Thumper the rabbit who has escaped from his hutch.

It is perhaps not the best moment to ask her about Jim Wells, who is outraged that she was selected as the DUP’s South Down candidate. He has quit the party and endorsed the TUV’s Harold McKee.