David Buttress said the prime minister ‘has to go’ in one of a series of critical tweets earlier this year

A business executive unveiled on Monday as the government’s “cost of living business tsar” called earlier this year for Boris Johnson to resign, 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”.

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