British Northern Ireland shadow secretary Mr Quentin Davies last night revealed plans to spend a week living with families in some of Belfast's sectarian interfaces.
The Tory MP told a radio programme that next week he would spend three days living with a loyalist family and three days with a republican family to find out what life was like in one of the tensest areas of Northern Ireland.
Mr Davies said he wanted to learn from people who "aren't public figures, who feel strongly about things, hearing what they have got to say directly".
In the past, Mr Davies has called for Sinn Féin to be stripped of their offices at Westminster.
The MP, who braved a loyalist blockage when accompanying Catholic parents and schoolchildren to Holy Cross Primary School in north Belfast, said he hoped people in Northern Ireland recognised that he took a firm line against violence from whatever side of the community.
"It is extremely difficult for politicians to be absolutely clear that they are in touch with the people they claim to be representing. I think it's probably a good idea and I'm looking forward to it," he added.
Mr Davies accepted that people in Great Britain were largely uninterested in what has being going on in Northern Ireland.