It's impossible to walk down Market Street in Manchester without running into at least a couple of charity workers. Spread across on of the busiest thoroughfares in the city centre, they interact with hundreds of Mancunians every day.
As the Manchester Evening News asked about their feelings ahead of the upcoming general election, the overall consensus was one of disillusionment and distaste for party politics.
"I'm not really not political," said one person, holding a leaflet asking for donations for children. "I don't really get involved." There was one main concern at the forefront of shoppers' minds - the cost-of-living crisis.
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"I have four children... I know [what it's like] to struggle, to feed the children," Amy, 32, said. "The struggle is real, it is hard... life is hard.
"[Rishi Sunak] needs to spend maybe one month on Universal Credit Allowance and then he will see how people are struggling. Maybe it'll be good to document that, I would watch that as a programme if it came on."
"Before the Conservatives, it was a lot easier to find jobs," Faisal, 35, says. As the M.E.N. visited the city centre to speak to voters about the issues they think are the most important ahead of the general election on July 4, there was a commonly-used word - 'struggle'.
Asked about the party leaders, people's answers different. Prime Minister Mr Sunak wasn't too many shoppers' favourite. "He's everybody's problem, no one likes Rishi Sunak," Mohammed, 24, said.
"I quite like Rishi Sunak," said Margaret, 84. Irene, 76, sat beside her said: "He's trying hard to improve things."
The mention of Keir Starmer was met with confusion by some. "I don't know who he is," Kirsty, 26, said. Bronia, 23, said: "They're both coming off not great, I think. Rishi's press tour is literally diabolical. Did you see the Sky TV thing? Poor boy.
"So, I guess you could say that Keir Starmer is winning, but it's still a bit of a shambles."
Ahead of the upcoming General Election on July 4, we are leading a country-wide, video-led mass vox pop dubbed '5000 Voices'.
M.E.N. reporters will be visiting towns across the region to canvass local opinion on the issues that are deciding how people will vote.
You can watch the public's answers to our reporters' questions in full in the video above.
