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Michael O’Leary’s Brexit jibe is a step too far

20 April 2023

8:20 PM

20 April 2023

8:20 PM

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary never has exactly been the master of tact, but will his latest outburst make his customers finally ask themselves: do they really want to travel in his planes? Speaking at a Bloomberg event he asserted that Britain will one day rejoin the single market because ‘in the next five to ten years, quite a number of the Brexiteers will die, as the average age of them is about over 70’.

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