Journalist Ben Laurance analyses each party’s campaign and gets a taste of what’s happening behind the scenes in the run-up to polling day. The programme looks at the debates, how the leaders have been styled and their performances fine-tuned and honed as they compete to get their policies across to the British public. Ben investigates how much the election is actually costing us, as well as how the parties are financing their campaigns. Dispatches also follows the three separate teams of foreign election observers as they travel the country to assess just how democratic our elections are.

Monday 3 May 2010
8:00pm, Channel 4