Tower Block of Commons (2010)

Genre

documentary television program

Country

United Kingdom

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four British members of Parliament live in poor housing estates across the country to experience conditions firsthand. The show documents their reactions and the lives of the residents they meet.

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What happens

Tower Block of Commons is a British four-episode reality documentary show produced by Love Productions and broadcast on Channel 4 in 2010 where four Members of Parliament (MPs) have to spend time living in a variety of deprived housing estates around Britain. The four MPs who participated were Austin Mitchell (Labour), Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat), Tim Loughton and Nadine Dorries (both Conservative). In the first episode, Iain Duncan Smith appears but Dorries appears in his place for the remainder of the three episodes. Duncan Smith's exit from the show followed his wife being diagnosed with cancer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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