Corbyn set to defy the odds and become British prime minister as Labour narrow Tory lead to one point

BRITAIN's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn looks to defy all odds and become prime minister tomorrow after he managed to turn around a 24-point deficit in the polls and cut Conservative Party leader Theresa May's lead to just one point.

Tomorrow, Britons are set to go to the polls and about a month ago, it had been assumed that the contest was a mere formality with Prime Minister ahead in the opinion polls with 24 points. However, as the campaign has gone on, Mr Corbyn's lead has narrowed to just one point and he is gaining in popularity by the hour amid signs that he will forge ahead of Mrs May by the time the polls open.

According to a new poll, the Conservative lead over Labour has fallen to just one point sending shockwaves to the nerves of the Tory rank and file. Conservative Party headquarters is said to be confused and running scared fearing the worse as the election kicks-off in less than 24 hours time.

With the current poll being the last authentic one before polling day, Conservatives are shocked that they are losing ground in the face of deliberate undermining of Mr Corbyn. Last week, the lead narrowed to only five points and according to the new survey by Survation for Good Morning Britain, the Conservatives are on 41% and Labour on 40%.

Theresa May and the Conservatives had a 17-point lead with the pollster at the start of May while the Liberal Democrat and Ukip's share of the vote stood at 6% and 3% respectively. However, the Labour leader’s personal credibility rating has increased from 15 points to 36 since the first Survation poll on May 5, while Mrs May’s rating has dropped 10 points over the same period.

It has been a landmark surge for Mr Corbyn who has taken his campaign to voters' doorsteps and damned the media onslaught which had dismissed him as a nonentity.  Labour’s surge is coming in the light of reports that contents about its policies are being widely circulated across social media, especially, Twitter, as a new study from the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute has proven.

A group of researchers, who have been tracking the recent changes in political activities observe that the traffic on Twitter over the final week of May showed that Mr Corbyn was the main topic. The research catalogued almost 2.5m tweets spread over a number of election-related hashtags featured the Labour Party.

They found that the number of posts using Labour-related hashtags dwarfed other featuring contents about other political parties, ultimately making up 62% of all tweets which mentioned specifically names of parties. According to the Guardian Newspaper, This was up from 40% at the start of the month. 

Also, the amount of high-frequency tweeting also increased in the same period, with more than 100,000 tweets sent from accounts that posted more than 50 times a day on just one party-specific hashtag, according to Guardian reports. On Facebook too, Labour has enjoyed considerable popularity with almost 2m people liking the party’s page.