Mike Greene (British entrepreneur)

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

Greene contested the June 2019 Peterborough by-election as a candidate for the Brexit Party.[5] Although favoured by bookmakers,[6] 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.[6][7]

He was the Brexit Party candidate for Peterborough in the December 2019 general election but only came fourth with 2,127 votes (4.4%).[8]

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.[9]

  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. ^ "Morrisons is selling all of its M Local convenience stores". The Independent. 2015-09-09. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  4. ^ "'Secret Millionaire' returns to Peterborough to save adventure playground from closure". Peterborough Telegraph. 21 May 2011.
  5. ^ "Former Tory businessman Mike Greene revealed as Brexit Party candidate in Peterborough by-election". 9 May 2019.
  6. ^ a b Andrew Woodcock (5 June 2019). "Peterborough: Farage makes final drive to win the Brexit Party's first MP". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-14.
  7. ^ Rajeev Syal (5 June 2019). "Brexit party's MP candidate under fire for freehold profiteering". The Guardian.
  8. ^ "Peterborough Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  9. ^ 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.