Gloria De Piero: Why people 'hate' MPs and politicians

4 October 2012 Last updated at 09:34 ET Help

A Labour MP has been travelling the UK looking into why the public do not rate - or possibly even hate - politicians.

Gloria De Piero said many might like their local backbench MP, but they think politicians do not understand their lives and opinions were getting worse.

One person told her PMQs on TV was like "Jeremy Kyle for posh people". She spoke to Jo Coburn after they heard views from the street about MPs.

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