Former Conservative MP Chris Green has said he hopes winning candidate Phil Brickell will be able to challenge his party’s leadership. Mr Green lost his Bolton West seat to Labour’s Phil Brickell – gaining just 12,418 votes compared to Brickell’s 17,363 – with third place Dylan Evans – standing for Reform UK – gaining 8,517 votes. Speaking to The Bolton News following his loss, Mr Green said: “It’s a pretty miserable morning, obviously any general election is a tough campaign.
“I, my team, the association – so many people have put so much into it. To get a result like that is really disappointing. We can just reflect on the national situation – we have that sense where the country is pretty miserable about a whole load of different things, and the Conservative party during this time isn’t helping ourselves.
” ALSO READ: Phil Brickell ‘looking forward to getting to work as soon as possible’. Asked what his next steps would be, Mr Green said: “Personally, I think need to get a normal job, I don’t know what it’ll be at the moment, though.” Sign up to our newsletters to get the latest stories sent straight to your inbox.
Mr Green said he would advise winning candidate Phil Brickell to speak up and challenge the Labour party leadership. “He has a huge mandate to represent the fantastic community right across Bolton West, he’s an intelligent guy – he will get to grips with all of the details that the constituency requires, he will get to.
