UK poll sends sterling sliding against the euro

Sterling slid after a poll showed the Conservatives’ lead shrinking two weeks before the UK general election.

“It’s turning into a rotten end to the week for the pound,” said Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at OANDA.

Since last year’s UK referendum to leave the EU, the weakness of sterling has boded ill for many Irish exporters who sell goods and services across the Irish Sea to Britain.