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The new Weald of Kent constituency’s agricultural sector should be a mainstay of the traditional Conservative vote at the general election on July 4. But as local democracy reporter Simon Finlay discovered, Tory support is not a given as supporters look to the future under a new government… The view across the Weald from Sutton Valence is a sight to behold on a summer’s day. Lying between the North and South Downs, from up here it is a baize of farmland, hamlets, medieval churches and old oast houses. Coppiced woods punctuate the hedgerow-lined fields, where the weather-battered wheat is last …

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