Before the expenses scandal blew up, in which British Members of Parliament replaced investment bankers as hate figures in the eyes of the public, a liberal democrat MP, Ed Davey, agreed to take part in a documentary that would explore the question of what an MP actually does. This strictly non partisan film observes his work from September 2009 to May 2010 when he became a Minister in the new Coalition Government. With unprecedented access, it is the first film to give a real flavour of the extraordinary range of problems that MPs encounter at their constituency surgery advice sessions and the issues they have to grapple with as ‘representatives of the people’