• Cable falls to 1.3508 as UK political news weighs on the pound

• UK PM Starmer under new pressure over Mandelson appointment

• 1.3508 is the lowest level since Tuesday (1.3501 was the low that day)

• Asian session high was 1.3535 (Wednesday's low was 1.3545)

• 1.3595 was Thursday's two-month peak (scaled in Asia)

• Trump says Iran war "should be ending pretty soon"

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(Robert Howard is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)