Euro currency focus on two confidence votes: Italy and Boris Johnson

The euro slipped on the resignation of the Italian premier amid a confidence vote, as currency markets focussed on another confidence vote -- in UK leader Boris Johnson early next month.

The resignation of Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and a verbal broadside on his coalition partner Matteo Salvini, which may lead to an autumn election, led to the euro edging lower against sterling but gaining against the dollar. It traded at $1.109 and 91.23 pence.