Boris Johnson has ducked out of a meeting with his own backbench MPs in the north of England ahead of an expected drubbing in the Wakefield by-election next week.
The Prime Minister pulled out of speaking at a Yorkshire conference of northern Conservatives on Friday at the last minute.
Johnson instead jetted to Ukraine for another image-boosting meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zolensky, tweeting out a picture of his arrival.
