Chaos-hit Boris Johnson missed a vital phone call with Vladimir Putin due to being engulfed by fallout from the Sue Gray parties report.
The Prime Minister had been expected to speak to the Russian leader at 4pm on Monday to tell him an invasion of Ukraine would be "an absolute disaster for the world".
But the call was hastily postponed - and did not happen by the end of the night - after Downing Street revealed police were investigating 12 lockdown parties in No10 and Whitehall.
