Someone (a reporter for the Times) once explained to me and a group of colleagues that the way to make a graph look more dramatic in a story was to only show a small section of of the overall chart (the bit that backs up your story), and don’t start the y axis at 0 (as a change from 4% to 5% looks starker/more negative that way…
For instance, in the Sky story
From the ONS website
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentand...eries/mgsx/lms
Don’t get me wrong, unemployment increasing by 20% since Labour came to office isn’t good, but this level of unemployment in not unusual for any Government…