It has been a week of ups and downs for Keir Starmer and Liz Truss.
The Labour leader is up in the polls and up in public esteem after the most successful Labour conference anyone can remember since Tony Blair.
He is now on course to follow Sir Tony by setting Labour on the road back to power.
If Ms Truss is down in the dumps then that is no less than she deserves after trashing the British economy.
The only ups in her premiership so far are prices, mortgages and the bank balances of millionaires thanks to her 45p rate tax cut.
A mini-budget which was meant to address the cost of living crisis instead lined the pockets of the already rich while paving the way for another bout of austerity for the rest of us.
The hope now as Tories gather in Birmingham for their conference is that she will acknowledge her mistake and reverse the budget which did such harm.
But we fear we hope in vain.
The PM now has her eye on laying waste to public services and cutting benefits by linking them to earnings and not inflation.
That would be piling one heartless error onto another. The good news is that Tory MPs are so furious they are plotting to oust her.
Which would make Sir Keir’s road to power shorter than it seems.
End Putin barbarity
If there was ever any doubt about the barbarity of Vladimir Putin’s thugs in Ukraine then freed British prisoner Dylan Healy dispels it today.
He has an important story to tell which is why the Sunday People is proud to publish it.
Dylan describes a mock execution, being waterboarded and daily beatings at the hands of his Russian captors which left him with broken ribs.
He also reveals the heartbreak of telling the daughters of fellow PoW Paul Urey of the ordeal their dad suffered before dying in captivity.
Dylan’s story is more than a testimony to the resilience of the human spirit.
It is yet another reason why we must not rest until Russian forces are off Ukrainian soil.
