The General Election is up and running, how will sterling react?

The last couple of weeks have been difficult for sterling losing ground against the board and this could continue as the General Election officially starts today as Parliament is dissolved. The weekend papers highlighted Labours lead in the opinion polls which would be good for our continued membership of the European Union. I am sure, as we saw with the Scottish vote on Independence, there are likely to be many twists and turns in the next few weeks, probably matched by sharp movements in sterling.