The Ryanair boss said he could hire people from continental Europe for jobs that he could not fill with British workers, but was unable to get visas for them. This was contributing to disruption in air travel, he said.
O’Leary said: “I can hire thousands of people in Portugal, in Italy, France, Germany at exactly the same wages that I’m paying in the UK and I just can’t hire them in the UK at the moment.”
He told Radio 4: “And we have this bizarre situation at the moment that in the UK I can get visas to bring Moroccans to come in and work as cabin crew. But I can’t get visas for Portuguese or Italians or Slovakian youngsters. We just need a bit of more common sense and a practical approach to how we implement Brexit.”
