Bloomberg, who was in London Tuesday inaugurating new offices in the capital with a reported price of $1.3 billion, said that such an investment decision would probably have been different if he had foreseen the Brexit vote.
“We are opening a brand new European headquarters in London – two big, expensive buildings. Would I have done it if I knew they were going to drop out? I’ve had some thoughts that maybe I wouldn’t have, but we are there, we are going to be very happy,” he said in Boston.
Bloomberg noted that many of his U.S. and U.K.-based employees have informed him that they want to leave these locations because they feel both countries have become more closed-minded to immigration. Bloomberg reiterated his comments on Brexit and Trump at an event in France on Monday, the Guardian reported.
The 75-year-old former Big Apple mayor considered standing as a third-party candidate in the 2016 U.S. election but eventually ruled it out.
