In the latest of our pre-election series, Aditya Chakrabortty goes back to Edmonton, another suburb failed by the national economy

Support for Ukip may be weaker than expected even in Ramsgate, one of the key towns in its supposed heartland

In the latest of our pre-election series, Polly Toynbee returns to where she was born, once a haven of tranquility. So when did it get so angry?

In the latest of our pre-election series, back in the chancellor’s constituency, food banks have appeared amid the footballers’ Bentleys and newbuild mansions

In the latest of our pre-election series, Anne Perkins returns to her home town, where Labour should have an advantage but instead Ukip is gaining ground

In the third of our pre-election series, Ian Jack returns to his home village, to find a middle-class influx that has transformed the area

In the second of our pre-election series, Rafael Behr returns to the area where he grew up, and finds it hard now to imagine it as the Tory bastion it was in the 1980s

In the first of our pre-election series, Gaby Hinsliff returns to the town to gauge the mood, and finds Grimsby making a last stab at reinvention