For the most part they aren't covering it. Noble Keir Starmer is leading the Coalition of the Willing™ against Trump and for Ukrainian victory.
They simply do not cover Keir's or Labour's unpopularity.
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This is true, although equally almost all of the news stories are about how things are getting worse so it only makes the contradictions more obvious.
The only time media has ever claimed Labour isn't doing well is when Corbyn was in charge and getting record levels of support.
I think most people out in the real world agree (finally) that Labour has been an enormous disappointment and we need something else.
Nah, happens more often than not. Milliband and Brown both got media’d (not to the same extent as Corbyn if course), but that was because they thought the tories were viable. Then they had to keep the Tories shambling along for a couple of years too long following Brexit as acute Corbyn hit. Then they got Starmer who kissed the ring so they could allow the Tories collapse under their weight and rebuild.
They’re holding off with the big attacks until they’ve figured out what they want to do next when it comes to Reform. Farage is a bit too uncouth and too wilful for them to back him immediately.
They're ignoring it and hoping the jingoism they're stirring up against Russia and the racism they're stirring up over refugee centres will distract from labour actively crumbling into dust.
They're not, at least not outside faint allusions to it in only the most poll obsessed wonky places, and even there all they're going on about is how the government is setting up an "Attack Team" led by Morgan Mcsweeney (Starmer's chief of staff, early Mandleson intelligence ghoul, & chief party bribe collector) to take on Reform while still courting their voters.
The usual far right tabloids are running the 'lefty woke shite' line against individual Labour ministers despite it being maybe the most right wing government in history, but Starmer did a (devil's) deal with the Murdoch press to keep them from going fully in on him, while the financial press galley is hectoring Labour to do even deeper cuts to state spending no matter how much austerity and tearing up of pensions they do (under Labour's current pension age proposal one third of people would pay in their whole life but never get their pension due to dying before it kicks in), but that's it.
Meanwhile a lot of the right wing attack dogs in the press along with the insidious 'left' papers and outlets like The Guardian and Novara are busy sowing the seeds of wreckerism in the Greens and Corbyn legacy party respectively.