

Pound slides as UK growth falls to six year low
Sterling was back on the defensive again as European markets opened for the week on Monday. The UK currency fell to its weakest position in three weeks as traders grew increasingly pessimistic that Theresa May will come back with any form of concessions from the European Union regarding the Northern Irish border ‘backstop’. The Prime Minister is today expected to present the progress she has made to the House of Commons and it now seems a pretty good bet that she will ask par