Either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss will be your next Prime Minister when Boris Johnson finally leaves No10 in September.
Millionaire Sunak and Iron Lady wannabe Truss are battling to win the support of Tory members after MPs put them through to the final round of the Conservative leadership contest.
The pair are going head to head over a fractious summer of campaigning, with their fate in the hands of some 160,000 Conservative members.
Ballots start landing on members' doorsteps this week after a delay due to hacking fears. They have until Friday, 2 September to vote.
The battle to win the support of Tory grassroots means both candidates are zeroing in issues like immigration and tax cuts - with little detail on issues that matter for mainstream voters such as the cost of living crisis.
Here’s what we know about their plans for No10.
RISHI SUNAK
TAX: The ex-Chancellor had offered fewer tax cuts than his rival but has ramped up his offer massively in a bid to get Tory votes. Business tax cuts come first in 2023, then personal tax cuts. But he U-turned to temporarily scrap VAT on energy bills from October if the price cap rises above £3,000. Plan would save households around £160 and cost taxpayer £4.3 billion. And he pledged not only to cut Income Tax from 20p to 19p in 2024, but also to 16p by the end of the next Parliament - likely 2028. Campaign said it was "the largest cut to income tax in 30 years" but Liz Truss allies branded it a huge U-turn.
SPENDING AND CUTS: As Chancellor he backed Boris Johnson's plans to slash a fifth of civil service jobs by the end of 2025. He asked departments to model job cuts of 20%, 30% and 40% by the same date. But his cost-of-living cash payments are still more than other candidates would pledge, even if teachers and NHS staff are set for a real-terms pay cut. Long-term advocate of freeports.
CULTURE WARS: Attacked "left-wing agitators" and branded the 2010 Equality Act - which protects people from discrimination based on sex, age, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation or transgender identity - “a Trojan horse that has allowed every kind of woke nonsense to permeate public life”. Elsewhere he told a private hustings of Tory MPs he'd be open to scrapping the BBC licence fee.
IMMIGRATION: Says he'll do "whatever it takes" to make the controversial Rwanda policy work. In a 10-point plan, he vowed to let Parliament introduce a cap on refugee numbers and tighten definition on who qualifies for asylum. Described the immigration system as "broken".
LAW AND ORDER: Pledged to take tougher action on grooming gangs and make criminals who refuse to attend court for their sentencing to face longer terms behind bars. Said officers "must be fully focussed on fighting actual crime in people's neighbourhoods, and not policing bad jokes on Twitter". Would create new 'down blousing' offence to stop people taking pictures down women's tops without consent. Mental health support for rape victims for life will be extended and he will ensure same-sex spaces to all survivors of sexual violence. Said he would crack down on Islamist extremism through the controversial Prevent scheme and said he would extend definition of extremism to those who "vilify our country".
NHS: Would fine NHS patients £10 for each “second or subsequent” appointment they miss. NHS Confederation, Royal College of GPs and British Medical Association condemned plan, saying it will penalise the poor and cost more than it saves. A "vaccines-style" backlogs taskforce would be told to contact everyone waiting over 18 weeks in his first 100 days. And 200 Community Diagnostics Hubs would be rolled out using vacant high street shops, while bureaucracy would be cut for overseas doctors. He plans to eliminate one-year NHS waiting times six months earlier than planned by September 2024, and to get overall numbers falling by next year.
ENVIRONMENT: Signed a pledge to roll out home insulation and electric vehicle charge points, and backs the target of Net Zero emissions by 2050.
HOUSING: Angered Tory thinkers with "desperate" pledge to block housebuilding on green belt, which has only shrunk 1% since 2006. He also wants to scrap EU rules to help investors put money into infrastructure assets.
INFRASTRUCTURE: Vowed to cut the number of shuttered shops on high streets, allow tougher punishment for graffiti and littering, and expand police powers to tackle anti-social behaviour.
BREXIT: Vowed to review 2,400 EU laws still on the statute book, and have initial recommendations for each one on whether it stays or goes, within 100 days.
DEFENCE: Said the NATO target of 2% of GDP is a "floor and not a ceiling" and notes it is set to rise to 2.5% "over time" but refuses to set "arbitrary targets".
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Described China as the "biggest-long term threat to Britain" - despite claims from Team Truss that he pushed for closer economic ties with Beijing. In an attempt to look hawkish, he promised to close all 30 Confucius Institutes in the UK and "kick the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) out of our universities".
EDUCATION: Told Leeds hustings he backs more grammar schools, suggesting he'd lift ban on new grammars.
BENEFITS: In a hardline approach, said he "completely agrees" with a Tory member who said benefits are "getting into the wrong hands for lazy people who just want to sit on their backside all day". Vowed to double the "administrative earnings threshold" in Universal Credit from 9 to 18 hours' work a week. Over this threshold, claimants get only "light touch" checks on whether they're looking for more hours of work. Added: "If you're taking money from the taxpayer at a time when the economy needs workers and we need to combat inflation, you should be taking the jobs that are on offer."
SCOTLAND: Said a second Scottish independence referendum is "the wrong priority at the worst possible moment".
LIZ TRUSS
TAX: Pledged to “start cutting taxes from day one” with an immediate Budget, including reversing National Insurance hike and next year’s corporation tax rise from 19% to 25%. Would also pause green levies on energy bills, costing the Treasury £5bn and harming Net Zero targets but saving households £153 each. Will “review” tax system to make it easier for parents or carers to be at home with loved ones. Promised to introduce "full-fat freeports" to offer businesses tax breaks and lower tariffs. She will also "look at" inheritance tax as part of an overall review, raising prospect of it being slashed for wealthy families. Told Leeds hustings: "My view of fairness is we need to reward people who do the right thing, who work hard, who set up businesses, who earn money and who want to pass it on to their children."
SPENDING AND CUTS: Did not explain how she would pay for her drastic tax cuts - but has talked about a spending review on day one to slash services, and she’d put Covid debt on a longer term footing. Would move the whips' office back into 12 Downing Street. She announced an ill-fated "war on waste" in Whitehall, but was forced into a screeching U-turn after a backlash because it meant people outside London and the South East would earn less.
CULTURE WARS: Blocked reforms to the Gender Recognition Act, proposed by Theresa May, to make it easier for trans people to change their legal gender and has tried to move the Equalities department away from the "identity politics" of the left, suggesting it should be called 'Department of Freedom'.
IMMIGRATION: Backs deporting some migrants to Rwanda and will pursue similar schemes in other countries. Pledges to boost Border Force capacity by 20% and bring forward a strengthened UK Bill of Rights to tackle illegal migration. Says she will not "cower" to the ECHR. In a hustings with Tory MPs, she backed leaving the European Convention on Human Rights as a last resort.
LAW AND ORDER: Would bring in league tables to compare forces' performances. Says she will order police to go "back to basics" and cut homicide, serious violence and neighbourhood crime by 20% by 2024 rather than investigating "Twitter rows and hurt feelings". Pledges officers will attend every burglary. Would outlaw street harassment such a cat-calling and kerb crawling. Has also vowed to speed up introduction of a domestic abuse register and give police officers mandatory training on how to help victims.
NHS: Agrees on need to stamp out backlogs but hasn't set out a detailed plan. Has said she is "completely committed" to current Government promises for NHS spending, despite tax cutting plans.
ENVIRONMENT: Backed the PM's push to reach Net Zero emissions by 2050 but would stop green levies on bills, which could damage the target. Told Leeds hustings "I support fracking in areas where people want it to happen" and "we also need to do more nuclear power".
HOUSING: Would get rid of housing targets after years of Tory failure, claiming they are "Stalinist".
INFRASTRUCTURE: Would revive Northern Powerhouse rail - a high-speed east-west line via Leeds and Manchester - that was vastly stripped back under Boris Johnson and replaced mostly with trains on existing track. "We will build the Northern Powerhouse Rail to link up communities and unlock potential across the north," she said. Didn't explain how she'll fund it. Also vowed to ensure the North gets a "fairer share" of Treasury funding.
BREXIT: Former Remainer gained trust in Brexiteer circles. Pushed through the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill which critics say breaks international law. Wants a "red tape bonfire" with a review of all EU laws retained after Brexit. Vowed to remove EU regulations that “continue to hold farmers back”, without saying which ones those are.
DEFENCE: Has pledged to increase defence spending to 3% of GDP by 2030 and strengthen the intelligence services. Said the Government's current plan to cut the size of the Army to 72,500 in 2025 is "up for review". Vowed to make President Zelensky her first foreign leader call and make Ukraine her “greatest friend”, by updating the Integrated Review of defence spending.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: "Helped lead the international response to increased Chinese aggression" as Foreign Secretary and "this will only continue when she becomes prime minister", her campaign said. Vowed there will be no second referendum on Scottish independence "on my watch”, appearing to out-do Boris Johnosn’s ‘now is not the time’.
EDUCATION: Pledged "students who get top grades in their A levels would be automatically invited to apply" to Oxbridge. But she did not explain how it’ll work. In a six-point plan she also vowed to replace failing academies with "a new wave of free schools" and improve maths and literacy standards. Backs more grammar schools, suggesting she'll lift Labour ban on new ones.
BENEFITS: Told Leeds hustings: "I would tighten up our incentives in our welfare system to encourage more people to go into work. We've still got a lot of economically inactive people who are not taking the opportunities of work."
SCOTLAND: Ruled out a second referendum and said Nicola Sturgeon was an "attention seeker" who should be ignored. Describes herself as a "child of the union" after growing up in Paisley and Leeds.
