Mike Greene (British entrepreneur)

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Mike Greene is a British entrepreneur who founded the and has also been a board member of the for 20 years.[1] In 2015 he founded My Local in an attempt to turn around Morrisons' 125 failing M Local convenience shops.[2] In 2011 he appeared on the Channel 4 show The Secret Millionaire.[3]

Greene contested the June 2019 Peterborough by-election as a candidate for the Brexit Party.[4] Although favoured by bookmakers,[5] he only achieved second place, with 29% of the vote, 683 votes behind Lisa Forbes, who retained the seat for Labour. He beat both the other two of the 'big three' parties, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.[5][6]

He was the Brexit Party candidate for Peterborough in the December 2019 general election but only came fourth with 2,127 votes (4.4%).[7]

In 2020, Greene was ordered to pay the Labour Party's legal costs after dropping a High Court challenge to the 2019 Peterborough by-election.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ "Former Secret Millionaire leads takeover of Morrisons' convenience stores". The Guardian. 9 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Morrisons sells its chain of convenience stores". BBC News Online. 9 September 2015.
  3. ^ "'Secret Millionaire' returns to Peterborough to save adventure playground from closure". Peterborough Telegraph. 21 May 2011.
  4. ^ "Former Tory businessman Mike Greene revealed as Brexit Party candidate in Peterborough by-election". 9 May 2019.
  5. ^ a b Andrew Woodcock (5 June 2019). "Peterborough: Farage makes final drive to win the Brexit Party's first MP". The Independent.
  6. ^ Rajeev Syal (5 June 2019). "Brexit party's MP candidate under fire for freehold profiteering". The Guardian.
  7. ^ "Peterborough Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  8. ^ Lamy, Joel (6 April 2020). "Peterborough Brexit Party candidate ordered to pay full legal costs to Labour after dropping election result challenge". Peterborough Telegraph. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
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