London with Brussels rupture prospect brought down the pound – TVNZ

While in UK counted votes of supporters and opponents of membership in the EU , the pound sharply fell. By the morning of Friday, the British pound fell below $ 1.35.

As of 6.00 (MSK), one pound gave 1.34789 dollars. This is the strongest collapse of the British pound in the history of notes, Reuters

Previously, most serious depreciation of the currency of the United Kingdom was recorded at the height of the global crisis of 2008 -. On October 24 when the pound for one trading session lost nearly 6% .

Let’s remind, following the results of the counting of votes from 128 of the 382 electoral districts of the UK, for an exit from the European Union and for the preservation of EU membership voted by about 4.6 million people.

How was the vote on the British referendum, read in the report by our special correspondent Galina Sapozhnikova.