Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s bid to buy Manchester United also features in the Times’ Wednesday offering. The paper largely focuses on other stories of the day, including a report on Tory MPs allegedly being encouraged to replace the much-used phrase “levelling up” with “stepping up” or even “gauging up”. A large image of the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is the centrepiece of the front page, though, after she was detained by police at a protest in Germany.