Geoffrey Cox missed winter fuel votes while working abroad in second job

Lib Dems say ‘public deserve better’ after Tory MP and lawyer spent several days working in Mauritius last month

The Tory MP Geoffrey Cox has been missing parliamentary votes and sitting days while working at his lucrative second job as a lawyer in Mauritius, the Guardian can reveal.

The former attorney general, who has declared at least £500,000 in pay from his second job this year, was on the Indian Ocean island for at least three days in mid-September and missed two votes on cuts to the winter fuel allowance.