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In a dingy basement office in Brighton, Caroline Lucas is talking about the swift. The Green Party politician, who is campaigning to retain her parliamentary seat on a frosty November morning, is describing her awe at the diminutive bird, which, she explains, "can fly a million miles in its lifetime as it's going backward and forward from North Africa". "It's just extraordinary," she exclaims. "But we have destroyed half the population of swifts in the past 20 years."