The environment secretary visited a Kent fruit farm this week as a county MP continued to push for a seasonal agricultural workers scheme.

Helen Whately, who represents Faversham and Mid Kent, invited Andrea Leadsom - a former Kent schoolgirl herself - to WB Chambers and Son in Sutton Valence and urged her Conservative colleague to help introduce a scheme to allow workers to come to the UK temporarily to work on farms.

The MP, who is chair of the all-party parliamentary group for fruit and vegetable farmers, orchestrated a Westminster Hall debate just before Christmas, where she warned colleagues a shortage of seasonal labour is putting Kent farms at risk of going out of business.

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