Jeremy Corbyn still has to convince public he can be PM, says his deputy Tom Watson
Video report by ITV News Political Correspondent Libby Wiener
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn still needs to convince the British public he can be prime minister, his deputy Tom Watson has told ITV News.
Labour's deputy leader claimed "one of the ways we can do that is showing that we've got a zero tolerance to anti-Jewish racism".
His comments follow the suspension of MP Chris Williamson from the party after he said Labour had been "too apologetic" on the issue of anti-Semitism.
The MP thanked people for their "solidarity" over his suspension. In a tweet he said "change is coming" to the Labour Party.
Speaking to ITV News Political Correspondent Libby Wiener about whether Mr Corbyn had done enough to stamp out anti-Semitism within the party, Mr Watson said the issue "goes to the very soul of who we are as members".
Mr Watson had previously described Mr Williamson’s behaviour as “deliberately inflammatory" and wrote a letter to Labour's general secretary Jennie Formby and chief whip Nick Brown, calling for the Derby North MP's suspension.
"It brings the party into disrepute and amounts to a Labour MP breaching the party's code of conduct on antisemitism in a public forum," Mr Watson wrote in the letter, which he released following Mr Williamson'seventual suspension.
Despite pressure, the party appeared reluctant to take any action further than issuing the Corbyn ally with a "notice of investigation for a pattern of behaviour" but the decision to suspend was taken after Mr Watson's letter.
Speaking to ITV News, Mr Watson he would "not stand by and allow half a million members of the Labour Party to be tainted by the brush of racism."
Recently Labour MPs left the party, citing racism and leadership reasons for forming their own Independent Group.
Mr Watson said he is "very concerned" other colleagues will want to join that group, who were later joined by three Conservative MPs claiming they left their party for similar reasons.
"There's the anti-Semitism issue, and then there's the issue about how do we represent all the traditions," he said, adding: "For various reasons that are completely understandable we've got a front bench that represents a particular view."
The MP for West Bromwich East says he's "argued for greater pluralism" in order to get all members' views represented in policy making.
He said: "All I've suggested is a different policy making mechanism where MPs from the PLP (Parliamentary Labour Party) from the social democratic and democratic socialist tradition can have their voices heard."
When the suggestion was put to him that his plan was to essentially set up a party within a party Mr Watson insisted that was not the case.
He said: "Let me reassure you, it absolutely isn't that. What it is is restating the case for pluralism."