Iain Duncan Smith will appear on a new Channel 4 show which invites MPs to live on council estates tonight (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)

Iain Duncan Smith will appear on a new Channel 4 show which invites MPs to live on council estates tonight

9:00am Monday 1st February 2010 in

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IAIN Duncan Smith will appear in a new television series investigating 'broken Britain' tonight (February 1).

The Woodford Green MP spent a night on Carpenters Estate in Stratford for the show back in last year, which takes the politicians out of the Westminster bubble and brings them into contact with ordinary people across the UK.

As the pictures show, the former leader of the Conservative Party took to his new surroundings and donned a track suit in an effort to fit in while taking a resident's dog for a walk.

He was due to spend further nights on the estate, but had to leave early after his wife Betsy was diagnosed with cancer.

Programme-makers hope that their experiences for the four-part series gave the MPs a greater understanding of the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the country, and appreciate more fully the difficulties they face given the current economic climate.

Mr Duncan Smith founded the Tory thinktank the Centre for Social Justice, which is very influential in developing Conservative party policy on fighting poverty and social deprivation.

Tower Block of Commons is on Channel 4 at 9pm.