In the headlines
Nato is sending battleships and fighter jets to eastern Europe as tensions with Russia mount. President Biden is considering moving 5,000 US troops to the region – 50,000 if things deteriorate – though he has ruled out deploying them in Ukraine itself. Boris Johnson has ordered an inquiry into Tory MP Nusrat Ghani’s claim that she lost a ministerial job because she is a Muslim. Also of concern to the PM is the “extremely damning” evidence that Downing Street police have given to the lockdown party probe, says the Telegraph. “If Boris Johnson is still Prime Minister by the end of the week, I’d be very surprised,” says one source. A quarter of UFO sightings in the UK are made by people standing outside the pub, says the Star. They were clearly “close encounters of the blurred kind”.