Alan Sugar has caused outrage by asking 'who's dead?' amid the coronavirus pandemic and for accusing Boris Johnson of being "too cautious" in bringing the UK out of lockdown.
The Apprentice star has been living in Florida which has been out of lockdown for six weeks.
He suggested the UK should follow the example of the US in easing lockdown restrictions.
Appearing on Jeremy Vine on Channel 5, he said: “Who’s dead? I’m not. I’m still alive. My wife, thank God, is still alive.
"So’s everybody else I know. No-one else has caught anything."
People hit back at Lord Sugar on social media for being "out of touch with reality" and "insensitive".
“And I have now seen the transition of restaurants opening, tennis courts for example opening, golf clubs opening, restaurants opening 50 per cent capacity, shops have been open all of the time, quite honestly, and this has been going on now for six weeks, and so I just logically say, well, hold on, six weeks, we’ve come out of this so-called lockdown."
The entrepreneur claimed that the Prime Minister’s own time in hospital with Covid-19 has affected his decision-making.
“So, I suppose it is a bit of a clue there that says that maybe we have reached a peak," he said.
"And maybe it’s time for us to follow the example of America, or indeed France that have opened up, or indeed Spain.
“I think Prime Minister Johnson unfortunately had a problem himself and I think he’s being a little bit too cautious if you ask me, just slightly.”
Mr Johnson has said doctors prepared to announce his death as he battled coronavirus in April.
The PM spent three nights in intensive care at St Thomas’ in London, where he said medics gave him “litres and litres of oxygen”.
It comes after Lord Sugar was accused of "misjudging the mood of the nation" after posting a picture of his £600,000 private plane.
The billionaire, who has held a pilot’s licence since 1975, was criticised on social media for the “tone deaf" public display of wealth at a time of widespread economic hardship caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
