Mike Greene (British entrepreneur)
British entrepreneur
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Michael Thomas Greene is a British entrepreneur and political candidate. He founded the Association of Retail Newsagents and has been a board member of the Association of Convenience Stores for 20 years.[1] In 2011 he appeared on the Channel 4 show The Secret Millionaire.[2] In 2015 he founded My Local in an attempt to turn around Morrisons' 125 failing M Local convenience shops;[3][4] My Local went into administration in June 2016.[5]
Greene contested the June 2019 Peterborough by-election as a candidate for the Brexit Party.[6] Although favoured by bookmakers,[7] 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.[7][8]
He was the Brexit Party candidate for Peterborough in the December 2019 general election but only came fourth with 2,127 votes (4.4%).[9]
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.[10]