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Boston & Skegness - a UKIP target constituency

David Eades visits rural Lincolnshire - a traditionally Conservative county - to see how the issues of immigration, Europe and the economy are influencing rural voters.

Rural Lincolnshire is home to some of the wealthiest and most fertile farmland in Britain. It is chock-a-block with Conservative safe seats. But the growth of UKIP in eastern England has sent shock waves through southern Lincolnshire.

The large farms and food processors which dominate the landscape are the county's biggest employers outside of the NHS. Increasingly a large part of the workforce comes from Eastern and Central Europe.

The county town of Boston is now home to 8000 European migrants - ten percent of the population.

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17 minutes