Walking through the quiet streets of Farnworth there was growing frustration amongst voters, with many refusing to see hope for the future.
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The road from Manchester to Marple is littered with political signs popping out from the gardens.
The town falls into the Hazel Grove constituency, a battleground seat which has always had a Lib Dem or Conservative MP.
It's been a Tory seat since 2015, with ex-MP William Wragg winning a 4,000-vote majority in 2019.
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But one week before the election on July 4, the drive down Stockport Road to Marple is absent of Tory blue placards.
It's one of the signals that the town is ready to turn its back on the Conservatives when polls open next week, with lifelong Tory voters saying they can't support the party any longer.
Ian Burns, 72, is one of those. He's voted Conservative all his life, but said he'd be "too embarrassed" to put a Tory placard in the house now.
"The way they have acted is disgusting. All the promises they've made in the last week, what about everything they've been doing the past ten years?
"I'm going to vote Liberal Democrat. I think they tell the truth and they come across like that. They seem more honest.
"If you're Labour - no. Conservative? Gone off them totally."
Down the road is the former office of ex-Tory MP William Wragg, who stood down as Hazel Grove MP after a 'sexting' scandal where he admitted to giving away his colleagues' personal phone numbers to a man on a dating app.
Apart from his name which is still etched onto the windows, all the signs that the building once served as his constituency HQ have gone.
And on the streets of Marple, people say Tory leader Rishi Sunak is just too "out of touch" to vote for.
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Walking through the quiet streets of Farnworth there was growing frustration amongst voters, with many refusing to see hope for the future.
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