The Labour MP, who held her Bristol South seat at last year’s general election, pushing the Conservatives into fourth place, went on to say: “The people [who] owe the country an apology are the Tory government who were in power for 14 years, who allowed this issue to drift.

“They were the people who started off, for example, the self-identification policies. I was in parliament when one of their leaders stood at the despatch box saying that trans women are women.”

it's like the centrists bought fully into the idea that the way to win elections is to just be better conservatives than the conservatives