British Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has warned that there is a “crisis for the soul” of party as he placed personal responsibility for fixing the party’s anti-Semitism problems at leader Jeremy Corbyn’s door.
After a week in which nine MPs quit the party, Mr Watson revealed yesterday he had sent a dossier of cases of anti-Semitism that he did not think had been adequately dealt with directly to Mr Corbyn.
Insisting the “social democratic voice has to be heard”, he vowed to set up a group within the party for Mr Corbyn’s opponents to make their own policy if the leader did not carry out a reshuffle.
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