Ryanair boss O'Leary blames Brexit for UK economy woes

ROME, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary described the current economic situation in Britain as a "car crash" which he blamed on the country's decision to leave the European Union.

"The mini budget was a kind of spectacular failure of the whole concept of Brexit," he said during a news conference in Rome, adding that the first thing Britain needed was what he called a sensible trading agreement with the EU.

Britain's new finance minister Jeremy Hunt scrapped Prime Minister Liz Truss's economic plan and scaled back her vast energy support scheme on Monday, making a historic policy U-turn to try to stem a dramatic loss of investor confidence. (Reporting by Alvise Armellini Writing by Keith Weir, editing by Cristina Carlevaro)