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The Guardian - UK
Politics

Tim Martin and Michael O’Leary should step outside to settle their differences

Manchester Airport travel drinking© Joel Goodman for the Guardian - 07973 332324 - all rights reserved . 08/08/2024 . Manchester , UK . Couple EVIE CALCUTT (21) and HARVEY BALL (23) (from Nottingham), in a bar at the T2 West Departure lounge, on their way to New York. Exploring whether the eating and drinking habits of travellers at Manchester Airport have changed. Photo credit : Joel Goodman
Michael O’Leary of Ryanair has suggested a two-drink limit for passengers at airports. Photograph: Joel Goodman/The Guardian

Tim Martin of JD Wetherspoon and Michael O’Leary of Ryanair are in dispute over pre-flight drinking and its resultant antisocial behaviour, I hear, after O’Leary suggested a two-drink limit. Could I suggest that they settle their differences in the time-honoured fashion befitting such gentlemen? A scuffle after closing time in the short-term car park at Luton airport would suggest itself.
Ian Simpson
London

• You report (29 August) that Tory ministers habitually underbudgeted for asylum, making up the difference from Treasury contingency funds. And that a Labour source described this practice as “like the wild west”. It sounds as though it could be the basis for a thrilling Clint Eastwood movie. For a Billion Dollars More?
Alan Gray
Brighton

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