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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

Profile: the Just Eat takeaway tycoon turned UK cost-of-living tsar

David Buttress.
David Buttress. Photograph: Just Eat/PA

Moments after he was announced as the government’s new “cost of living business tsar”, David Buttress, the multimillionaire co-founder and former chief executive of takeaway app company Just Eat, went out into his garden and inspected one of his chickens’ bottom.

“Long busy day with some great meetings,” Buttress tweeted on Monday night. “But always great to get home to the real world and ‘dad the chicken isn’t well can you go and check it’s [sic] bum’… keeping it real.”

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