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The lack of regulation is "blighting a host of communities", said East Thanet MP Polly Billington, due to the "increase in antisocial behaviour that follows from the proliferation of party flats".

He’s pledging an extra £1bn for the agriculture budget, and to re-negotiate overseas trade deals and address worker shortages blighting the sector.

Critics have said the plan would deface areas of outstanding national beauty by adding more pylons - the huge steel structures which have been accused of blighting landscapes.

Unaffordable rents are changing low-income life, blighting the prospects of not only the poor but also growing shares of the lower middle class after decades in which rent increases have outpaced income growth.

Next time you feel like littering, think of the bird you may harm and the beauty you are blighting.