this chip design and capability. there were concerns from uk regulators for national security reasons that arm would leave britain and would go to the united states. in terms of what happens now from the softbank point of view, the likely scenario will be that they will try to off load arm through an ipo, and that will raise a lot less cash than a sale would, and they do need the money, many other big investments recently have not paid off, they have a lot of big assets trading below their listing price, and they were hoping to double their money through this sale, but it hasn t paid off, as you mention. we have got these results from 03, in a few hours, and it will be interesting to see how they address these reports. there has been a chronic shortage of chips impacting many industries and in
the uk, poland and germany are probably the three biggest countries where we are suffering from a driver shortage. i will focus on the uk, even before the pandemic we have already had 50,000 or 60,000 empty positions. the situation is getting much worse nowadays and we are around 90,000 vacancies for drivers. in the uk it has been like a perfect storm, three majorfactors are affecting the uk more than other countries. the first one and one of the most important ones was the brexit. brexit led to around 25,000 eu drivers to leave britain, and they not coming back. that is basically the nature factor of eight
they could have leave britain frustrated. thanks so much for unioning us dominique. thank you, robyn. a few hours from now t prime minister is to meet with mike pence. the u.s. president has been about out spoken supporter of boris johnson and his brexit agenda. boris is a friend of mine. he s going at it and there is no question about it. he s in there. he s in there fighting. he does know how to win. boris knows how to win. arriving in the london. the u.s. siding with the brexit
after that, well, this is when things get really murky. no one really knows how it will work. what we do know the prime minister will have 14 days to respond in which time the government could be swept along in four possible directions. he could call an election leaving the british people which cause to steer. trying to form a government and corbyn has said he would call a second referendum on brexit. and then an uniformity government. fourth possibility, if johnson loses the no-kofd vote is that he simply refuses to step down and that means it could leave britain adrift in a constitutional crisis and this is where the queen comes in.
which said this is a matter for the courts to try to some way reverse this for modify this and still hold the ship does the u.k. resist do the americans go even further which was not only a split with the u.k. but with the european union. and we know the united states favor want to seize the iranian tanker themselves. are those efforts now dead. oh enough he s dead under the trumpet ministration when it s trying to reduce all iranian oil exports to 0 which is why they very much wanted to keep holding on to the ship but i think the question is whether they keep pushing this particular matter given that the british are looking for the release of their u.k. fly tanker possibly later today or whether the americans say ok we lost on this one but now we ll try to find out otherwise to try to cut off iranian ships. it s not us all of this leave britain because i mean it appears as if the united states is trying to sink any behind the scenes efforts made by british diplomats to end the