Media lens describing the electoral and media conditions under which Starmer won, as compared with Corbyn
Corbyn lost by a landslide in 2019. Starmer won by a landslide in 2019.
Corbyn got more votes.
Yet the media narrative is Corbyn was uniquely unpopular, and his supporters fringe lunatics.
@samjc Corbyn's policies were undoubtedly popular even with some of his most ardent opponents within the Labour Party.
But thanks largely to the media's portrayal of him (including during his many years as a backbench MP) as a "left-wing loony", he was deeply unpopular with voters.
Starmer successfully targeted Tory voters, and he's certainly more popular with them than Corbyn!