Theresa May on Friday night faced angry questions about public services and her policy U-turns, and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was heckled over his attitude to nuclear weapons as polls continued to tighten ahead of next week's general election.
ORB said May's lead had increased from six percentage points in its previous poll which was published on May 27.
There was slightly better news for May from a Panelbase poll which put her party 8 points ahead of Labour, but that still meant the Conservatives' advantage had nearly halved in a week.
The poll is the latest to show a narrowing lead for May.
Depending on which polls you read, the outcome next week could be anything "from Theresa May winning a healthy majority to her being hounded out by Jeremy Corbyn". That would have seemed risible just a few weeks ago.
"I think they're engaged because our manifesto offers them hope", Corbyn told NME.
He will argue that years of Conservative rule has resulted in stagnating productivity, falling public sector net investment and average wages forecast to be lower in real terms in 2021/22 than their 2007/08 level.
Against the Bank of England's trade-weighted basket, which measures sterling's broader strength, the pound is now back where it was on 9 April, before May called the election.
A Conservative candidate standing for re-election in a marginal seat told Huffington Post UK that they had noticed a change on the ground.
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Notably, it was YouGov that made perhaps the most pro-Corbyn prediction this week, estimating that the Conservatives would lose 20 seats and with it their overall majority. Most ended up agreeing that they had paid too much attention to enthusiastic young voters, ignoring the fact that these young voters often don't actually vote (both the 2015 general election and the Brexit referendum saw 18- to 24-year-olds less likely to vote than those over 65).
His speech was delivered in the pugnacious and unforgiving style any United States watcher would have expected from the 75-year-old.
Although they also smelled a missed opportunity.
For Mr Jeremy Corbyn, the divisive and at times embattled leftist leader of Britain's main opposition party, things looked grim.
"Any circumstances where anyone is prepared to use nuclear weapon is disastrous for the whole planet", Mr Corbyn said.
Corbyn used a rally in Basildon, in southeastern England, to say that May and the Conservatives are putting Britain's economy at risk by taking an unnecessarily hard line toward the European Union over Brexit terms, which may lead to a breakdown in talks. We've got five more years of austerity if the Conservatives get into power'.
In a hard moment, she was challenged by a woman who struggled to hold back tears as she described waiting for more than a year for counselling on the state-run National Health Service.
Mrs May said she would make "no excuses" for her treatment, but insisted she was determined to improve the handling of mental health in the NHS. It would have been easy for me as prime minister to stay on and keep a hand on the job.
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