
Britain’s flagship tech company - Arm - has opted for an initial public offering on New York’s Nasdaq . The news is a blow to the UK tech sector and the City - but in truth, the odds were never in London’s favour.
Arm’s decision has also been coming since 2016, when then-Chancellor Phillip Hammond allowed Arm to be sold to SoftBank – a sale which faced virtually no scrutiny and allowed an important national asset to be sold.