THE 10-day suspension of Parliament amid a “terrifying cost-of-living crisis” was slammed by campaigners today.

Proceedings in both the House of Commons and Lords are set to be put on hold until after the funeral of the queen next Monday.

Following two days of tributes by MPs to Elizabeth Windsor, who died on Thursday, Parliament is not due to sit again until Wednesday September 21, the day before a further suspension is due to allow for party conference season. 

The official government and parliament petitions website has also been frozen “until further notice,” meaning people can no longer post new petitions or sign existing campaigns.

Grassroots campaign group Momentum warned that the shutdown has come as take-home pay plummets and inflation soars to 40-year double-digit highs.  

A spokesperson tweeted: “We remain in a terrifying cost-of-living crisis.

“Millions of people are struggling to stay afloat. They need urgent government action, now. Cut bills, cap rents, hike wages and benefits.”

The group slammed plans from new Tory Prime Minister Liz Truss to make taxpayers fund a freeze in the energy price cap at a record annual high of £2,500, saying it would see “already-unaffordable bills rise further.” 

The policy, announced by the former foreign secretary just hours before the queen’s death, came with only “limited debate” and amounts to at best a “non-plan for energy,” economic justice campaigner Richard Murphy said.

Mr Murphy, professor of accounting practice at the University of Sheffield, slammed the “utterly unacceptable” situation. 

He tweeted: “Other business is continuing. Debts will also be chased. Schools and other public services will all operate.

“But the process of accountable government will be suspended. That is a powerful and worrying symbol suggesting there is no accountability in the UK.”

The “rushed” accession of Charles III is also an attempt to “emphasise status, inherited power, the perpetuation of wealth and control of the populace,” he said.

Mr Murphy also blasted Ms Truss’s announcement that she will accompany the new monarch on a tour of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland this week as a sign that the “deeply unpopular PM is desperate for publicity.”

The Australian parliament, which recognises the British monarch as its head of state, has also been suspended — for 15 days — sparking renewed calls for a new republic. 

Australians narrowly rejected a move to replace the queen with an elected president in a 1999 referendum.