Rishi Sunak has billed himself as the "underdog" in the contest to replace Boris Johnson with just two weeks to go until voting closes in the Tory leadership race.
In a cringeworthy introductory video at a hustings event in Manchester featured images of the ex chancellor holding a bazooka with a voiceover saying: "Britain loves an underdog".
Later, he insisted to the party faithful: "I will fight until the last day of this contest, and I plan to keep going until the end".
Despite winning the MPs' vote in the first round of the Tory leadership contest in July, Liz Truss has emerged as the clear frontrunner in polling of Conservative members.
