Socialists: Daly quit over Wallace link

The Socialist Party has insisted that Clare Daly’s “political connection” to tax evader Mick Wallace was the “elephant in the room” that led to her departure from the party.

Ms Daly resigned from the party over the weekend and said suggestions she did so because of Mr Wallace were “absolute nonsense” and “a complete lie”.

However, the Socialists subsequently insisted Mr Wallace lay “at the core of her divergence” from the party.