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Published 19:48 2 Mar 2019 GMT
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Jeremy Corbyn and Jennie Formby (Credit: Ian Forsyth)[/caption]
Earlier this week, Watson intervened in the investigation into Chris Williamson. Williamson, the MP for Derby North, was filmed telling a Momentum meeting the party had "given too much ground" to criticism of its approach to anti-Semitism and was being "too apologetic."
Initially Williamson was investigated but not suspended from the party. Both Watson and prime minister Theresa May said the MP should be suspended immediately - eventually he was.
Watson has also said he sent 50 reported cases of anti-Semitism in Labour to Jeremy Corbyn that required his "personal lead."
Formby said it was "absolutely inappropriate for you to set up a vague parallel complaints monitoring system".
"You will undermine the work that my staff and I are doing and will confuse and pollute the existing formal process, compromising it and slowing it down."
[caption id="attachment_221880" align="alignnone" width="5275"] Tom Watson has been increasingly vocal about anti-Semitism in the Labour party (Credit: Leon Neal)[/caption]
In response, an unnamed MP told : "It looks like the deputy leader gets a stronger telling off than racists."
Tom Watson said: "Too often those who have suffered antisemitic abuse have not heard anything about the outcome of their complaint.
"It is my responsibility as deputy leader of the Labour Party to ensure people have confidence in our complaints system and our ability to deal transparently with the scourge of antisemitism.
"I will continue to do everything I can to achieve that."
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Two weeks ago, to form the Independent Group citing anti-Semitism in the party.
Jewish MP Luciana Berger said the party was "institutionally anti-Semitic" when she quit. Watson said Berger had been "bullied out of the party by a small number of racist thugs."

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