In the run-up to the general election, the Guardian video team is touring the UK looking at issues that matter to communities. As Labour faces pressure to scrap the two-child benefit cap, we spoke to people in Gateshead, which has some of the highest levels of child poverty in the country

In the run-up to July's election, the Guardian video team will be touring the UK looking at the issues that matter to voters. In a week when an attack on a refugee camp in Rafah and the Labour party's treatment of Diane Abbott and Faiza Shaheen dominated the headlines, we spoke to voters in Ilford – North and South – who were protesting locally about Gaza. We asked whether these issues would make a difference to how they vote in the election, met canvassers getting behind independent candidates, and spoke to business owners about their political priorities

Hundreds of protesters prevented an attempt to collect asylum seekers from a south London hotel and transfer them to the Bibby Stockholm barge

Since London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, extended the capital’s ultra-low emission zone in the pursuit of cleaner air, the backlash has become increasingly ferocious.

The Guardian spoke with three families living in a Travelodge hotel about the impact it’s having on their children, health and money.