New government ‘cost of living tsar’ called for Boris Johnson to resign

theguardian.com:

A business executive unveiled on Monday as the government’s “cost of living business tsar” called earlier this year for Boris Johnson to resign, in one of a series of tweets criticising the prime minister and aspects of government policy, it has emerged.

David Buttress, the co-founder and former chief executive of the takeaway delivery app Just Eat, is also a strong supporter of Welsh independence, saying this was needed because Westminster was filled with “Boris Johnsons and right-wing extremism”.

Buttress, who has been interviewed several times by Guto Harri, Johnson’s head of communications and a former journalist, will work in a new unpaid government role to assist companies in developing schemes to help people struggling with rising prices.

In a tweet sent in January, immediately after news of a “bring your own booze” gathering in Downing Street during lockdown, Buttress wrote: “Why is it that the worse people often rise to the highest office and stay there!?

“For me, it isn’t important what job you do or your title, but it is vitally important why you do the job and what you achieve. Boris has to go, he just has to. You can’t survive judgment like this.”

Soon after the tweet was unearthed, by Labour officials, it was seemingly deleted.

In a more recent tweet, sent in April, Buttress condemned what he called “decades of Westminster Conservative neglect of Wales” in response to a message from Welsh Tories condemning Labour rule in the country.