In this new four-part series, a group of MPs leave Westminster and their comfortable homes to live for eight days and nights in tower blocks on different council estates in some of Britain’s most deprived neighbourhoods.

They will be living alongside and meeting a wide range of residents on the estates and coming face-to-face with issues that affect their lives: including gangs, immigration, drug addiction, poverty, crime, housing and unemployment. The MPs are Liberal Democrat Mark Oaten, Conservative Tim Loughton, Labour’s Austin Mitchell and former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith.

Monday 1 February 2010
9:00pm, Channel 4