Labour’s better-than-expected performance in the June general election has led to an outbreak of soul-searching in the Conservative Party: how can they broaden their appeal? What does modern Conservatism stand for? Where is Britain going?

But, while the Tories are engaged in reflection, there is little evidence to suggest that similarly pertinent questions are being asked by Labour’s self-identified “moderates.”

Few parliamentary figures embody the limitations of the moderates more than Chris Leslie. A shadow chancellor under Harriet Harman and interim party leader following Ed Miliband’s resignation in May 2015, Leslie is the quintessential apparatchik-careerist.