Liberal MPs will be hauled back to Canberra on Wednesday for a crunch meeting to resolve the party’s position on net zero, infuriating an MP who is demanding to know why the party’s leadership has delayed a decision for so long.

In an interview with this masthead’s Inside Politics podcast, moderate senator Jane Hume labelled the divisive debate over the slogan “net zero” as crazy, arguing that the Coalition parties broadly agreed on almost everything but those two words.

After an all-in party meeting on Wednesday next week before the final sitting week of the year, the Liberal frontbench will reconvene on Thursday, followed by a joint meeting of Liberals and Nationals on Sunday, November 16.

In a sign of a looming brawl next week, conservative backbencher Ben Small sharply criticised

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