Western leaders will attend a crunch summit even if Vladimir Putin went because they would not want the Russian President and his Chinese counterpart to plot alone, Boris Johnson has revealed.
Kremlin despot Putin has been invited to the G20 in Bali in November - throwing up dilemmas for governments outraged by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February.
No10 has refused to rule out boycotting the Indonesian gathering, or staging a mass walkout if Putin addressed the conference.