The deputy leader of the Labour Party has told Jeremy Corbyn he will never step foot in Number 10 unless he addresses anti-Semitism within the Labour Party.
Following the resignation of eight MPs from the party this week, Tom Watson said of his leader 'if he's ever to be Prime Minister he has to rebuild the trust' with the British Jewish community.
'I think the situation is so grave now that he understand that he needs to make a personal intervention,' he told the BBC's Andrew Marr this morning, saying the general secretary Jennie Formby's attempted reforms had been 'inadequate'.
He revealed he had been made aware this week of 50 cases of anti-Semitism within the party which had not been dealt with properly in his view, and would be passing the dossier to Mr Corbyn for his personal attention.
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson told Andrew Marr that Jeremy Corbyn needed to intervene in the anti-Semitism row personally if he was to prevent further splits in the party and regain the trust of the British Jewish community
He also called for a reshuffle to bring the talent of more centrist Labour MPs currently on the back-benches back into the shadow cabinet, saying: 'If some of the greatest talents we've got are on the back benches - cannot be on the front bench for whatever reason - I do think the expression of their ideas needs to be given greater weight in the Parliamentary Labour Party.'
He said he would 'prefer' that to be via the mechanism of a shadow cabinet reshuffle but might 'convene a group of MPs' himself to bring more centrist ideas to the fore within the party.
It comes as Chuka Umunna, who left the Labour Party on Monday to co-found The Independent Group, revealed he had been subject to such vitriolic abuse he had to call the police on the perpetrator who was subsequently arrested.
Mr Umunna told Sophie Ridge on Sky: 'I have received threats from supporters of the leader where I've had to call in the police and somebody was arrested.
Mr Umunna said he had receved abuse so bad he'd had to call the police, blaming his former party leader for 'the extraordinary becoming ordinary'
'At times it's been extremely unsettling and you do question "why am I doing this? This is not normal".
'Part of the problem in politics is that the extraordinary has become ordinary, these types of behaviours have become normalised'.
Asked 'who do you blame,', the former shadow business secretary replied: 'I blame Jeremy Corbyn', before saying the shadow cabinet had been 'disgraceful' for not or threatening to resign over anti-Semitism.
He listed Corbyn controversies including his support for an anti-Jewish mural, his suggestion Jewish people don't have an English sense of irony, and his attendance at 'a wreath laying ceremony for terrorists'.
'I don't know whether Jeremy Corbyn' is personally anti-Semitic, he said.
'His actions seem to suggest he's got questions to answer on that front. But I've been very clear, the Labour Party is institutionally anti-Semitic.'
He denied that he would be the leader of the new group but said he wanted
