Latest opinion polls in the UK have shown that British Prime Minister Theresa May’s lead of 12 points over the opposition Labour Party has shrunk to only six percent following the Manchester terror attack.
Four opinion polls published on Saturday indicated that May’s lead had narrowed by a range of two to six percentage points, illustrating that the upcoming June 8 election might end up being much closer than previously thought when she called for the snap vote.
According to an ORB poll cited in a Reuters report, May’s Conservative Party holds the lead with 44 percent while the Labor Party comes second with 38 percent, and Liberal Democrats in a distant third position with seven percent followed by the far-right UK Independence Party favored by only four percent of those polled on May 24-25, after the Manchester terror incident.
“The campaign has changed,” said ORB International’s Managing Director Johnny Heald as quoted in the report….