A relative unknown - oftentimes an advantage in electoral politics - Leadsom has found herself under enormous scrutiny in the past few days.

She has been accused of exaggerating - if not downright lying - about her professional background in finance. She is said to have endorsed a tweet that claimed Britain was "overrun with foreigners", then deleted it, then denied she hadn't done it in the first place. She has written that the child of a single parent is "more likely to become a drug addict or a criminal".

Oh yeah, and she "doesn't like" gay marriage "because it upsets Christians". (May has herself, incidentally, voted against same-sex adoptions)

Both Leadsom and May voted to lower the abortion limit from 24 weeks to 20 weeks. While May attempted to introduce abstinence lessons into sex education, Leadsom favours scrapping maternity rights for individuals who work in small companies. As the most senior woman in the Cabinet, May has backed austerity cuts that have disproportionately affected hundreds of thousands of women.

What was that I heard you say again: a feminist revolution?

Of course, it would be completely wrong and irresponsible to say that "it only counts as feminism" if the "the women I/we agree with" win.

But how can it be a feminist victory if our prime minister - female or not - believes that women shouldn't have control over their own reproductive rights?

“Britain's next Prime Minister will be a woman, but this is no victory for women”