Environment hopes for Labour to address in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk

Catherine Arnold, an open water swimmer, thinks more needs to be done to tackle pollutants released into the sea and rivers

"From leaving the European Union it took about eight years to get to where we are today," says Mr Watt. This would include cutting through red tape in the Environment Land Management Schemes and protecting farmers from being undercut by low welfare and low standards in trade deals.Catherine Arnold, a member of Essex-based wild swimming group Manningtree Mermaids, has long been a campaigner pressing for a clean-up of our seas and rivers.

"The whole system has to change - what I'd really love the government to be doing is looking at a long-term solution," Ms Arnold says. They said companies have now signed up to the government’s initial package of reforms which includes consumers "gaining new powers to hold water company bosses to account through powerful new customer panels".

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