A ‘turquoise wave’ is on its way: interview with Peterborough Brexit party candidate Mike Greene

‘We’re going to give this everything we’ve got until 10 o’clock on Thursday.’ There’s only two days to go until the Peterborough by-election, and it’s fair to say that Brexit party candidate Mike Greene is determined to win. In his campaign headquarters in Peterborough, the businessman, Secret Millionaire and former Tory supporter revealed he hadn’t placed a bet on himself like Nigel Farage (his Mum told him to never bet against the bookies), but is ‘confident’, though not complacent, that the Brexit party can win here this week.

Peterborough has always been a tightly contested marginal seat that has either voted for Labour or the Tories since the second world war. But after the European election results last month, which saw the Brexit party come first in the area with 38 per cent of the vote, there’s a sense that the seat could be won by an outsider for the first time.