New Tory leader urged to scrap MPs’ break for party conferences amid cost of living crisis

Exclusive: Ministers encouraged to stay at Westminster to devise emergency plans to address cost of living crisis

The next Conservative leader has been urged to scrap MPs' four-week break for party conference season and told it would be immoral and insulting" to go missing in action" during the worsening cost of living crisis.

With the Commons due to go into recess for a month in mid-September for the parties' annual conventions, ministers were encouraged to remain in Westminster to devise and debate emergency plans for supporting struggling people through the winter.