Brexit just took the lead in the polls - and now the pound is slipping
The pound is slipping on Wednesday morning, as a poll showed that the people of Britain currently favour voting to leave the European Union.
On Tuesday evening, a poll from ICM suggested that 43% of people now favour leaving the EU, compared to just 41% wanting to remain within the European bloc. That news has helped push the pound downwards, and in early trading on Wednesday, Britain's currency is off by around 0.25% against the dollar, its most important cross. Here's how that looks:
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Yesterday's terrorist attacks in Brussels appear to have made some who back Brexit even more convinced that Britain should exit the EU. One UKIP spokesman, Mike Hookem, yesterday blamed the attacks on the EU's Schengen free movement zone, saying that "open borders are putting the lives of European citizens at risk."
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