LONDON, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Latest opinion polls Saturday night show Britain's main opposition Labour Party has cut the commanding lead of the Conservatives, with the general election less than two weeks off.
A few weeks ago Prime Minister Theresa May and her Conservatives were so far ahead of any rivals that a challenge seemed an impossible mountain to climb.
According to the latest poll by Opinium to be published Sunday in the Observer newspaper gives the Conservatives an overall lead of 10 points, with 45 points compared with Labour's 35.
However, a mid-April canvass by the same pollster gave May's party a 19 point lead over their main rivals, Labour.
There was even talk that Labour was facing a landslide collapse when Britain's 46 million voters head to polling stations on June 8.
The Observer reported Saturday night that Corbyn has also dramatically cut May's previously commanding lead in approval ratings among voters.
"The narrowing of May's lead suggests her decision to call a snap election and then focus her campaign almost entirely on her leadership, contrasting it with Corbyn's, may be backfiring," said a commentary on the Observer site.
It adds that more than a third of voters (37 percent) say their opinion of the prime minister is more negative than at the start of the campaign, against 25 percent who say it is more positive.
The opposite is true of Labour leader Corbyn, with 39percent saying they have a more positive view of him compared with 14 percent who now have a more negative view.
The Observer says Conservative Party strategists will be alarmed by the survey.
In another poll by ComRes for the Independent and Sunday Mirror newspapers, the Conservatives are two points down at 46, while Labour have gained four, still putting them 12 points behind at 34. That poll was conducted after Monday's terrorist attack in Manchester.
The ComRes poll shows more people trust May on the world stage (49 percent) compared with Corbyn's 21 percent, which is 4 percent compared with a previous poll. But Corbyn is more trusted (42 percent) than May (25 percent) on the National Health Service.
ComRes said voters are still more likely to say that May best fits the majority of the measures tested but her ratings have fallen, while Corbyn's have risen, on almost every measure tracked.
