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] He is also known for his investment in Comet Group. 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.

During the campaign, he had been criticised for involvement in 'E&J Ground Rents No4 llp', with his then business partner James Tuttiett, a company criticised for profiteering the ground rent of the freeholds of hundreds of new homes in the UK.[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. 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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