For weeks Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have been tossing red meat in the face of Tory members in a bid to woo them.
Some have expressed their fears that the two leadership candidates are distracted from the cost of living crisis as winter approaches and Brits will struggle to heat their homes, let alone eat.
Ms Truss has spent hustings attacking the media, insisting she is a “plain talking Yorkshire woman”, and justifying embarrassing policy U-turns.