Cameron at No42: Dave takes a break with Asian family in Birmingham

So imagine if David Cameron turned up on your doorstep - with an overnight bag - to find out how you live.

The Tory leader has left his £1 million home in Notting Hill to spend two days living with a British Asian family in Birmingham.

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It was billed as a chance for the Old Etonian Tory leader to spend time in an inner city Muslim community, one of the most deprived areas of the city and the home of its red light district, to find out how the locals 'tick'.

So he packed his toothbrush and pyjamas and left his £1million home in Notting Hill to 'spend some proper time out of Westminster'.

Yet rather than staying over in one of the run-down tower block flats in Balsall Heath, his hosts were the owners of a £500,000 six-bedroom detached home overlooking Warwickshire County Cricket Ground and on the edges of one of Birmingham's most desirable suburbs.

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And as these pictures show, everywhere the family went - shopping, going down the local pub or seeing the kids off to school - Mr Cameron, and a photographer, were there.

It was just as well former grocery store owner Abdullah Rehman, 37, his wife Shahida, a 33-year-old school dinner assistant, their daughters Zainab, five and eight-year-old Armanah, and son Fehzan, 10, didn't seem to mind a possible future Prime Minister bunking in their spare room and eating their Weetabix.

Mr Rehman described the Tory leader as "charming" while his mother Sofia, 63, who also lives with them, said he was "like another son to her".

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Mr Cameron arrived at the home after Prime Minister's Question Time on Wednesday and didn't leave until Thursday afternoon.

Pictures of Mr Cameron sipping tea with the family resembled a scene from the Kumars at No42, the hit BBC comedy series about a British Indian family who take in famous guests for the night.

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Writing on his website, webcameron.org.uk, the Conservative leader said: "I'm already rather fed up with the way that touring the country works in politics.

"You charge around having to meet deadlines imposed by the media and the Parliamentary timetable. An hour here, an hour there, with snatched conversations, half learning things but not getting to the bottom of a problem and often failing to gain a proper understanding of what's going on.

"There's too much of people telling you what they think you want to hear, and too often the boldest or loudest voices dominate, rather than the most considered and thoughtful. So I've decided to spend some proper time out of Westminster."

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The visit was arranged after Mr Cameron's office contacted Dick Atkinson, the executive director of the Balsall Heath Forum, to facilitate an overnight stay with a local Asian family.

Mr Rehman is a full-time community warden with the forum and volunteered to house Mr Cameron for the night.

He said: "Mr Cameron could have ended up anywhere, but I think he enjoyed his night at my house.

"I have no affiliation with any political party - politics bore me to tears. But I was impressed with Mr Cameron. He had no airs or graces and was a thoroughly nice man.

"He didn't ask me about politics and I didn't ask him. He was just keen to learn about ways to improve community cohesion."

Mr Rehman said that the Tory leader enjoyed Weetabix and coffee for breakfast and a curry cooked by his wife for dinner - "he was happy to eat what we had in," he said.

So far, at least, Mr Rehman is yet to receive an invitation to spend a night at the MP's eco-friendly Notting Hill residence.

Balsall Heath has a 60 per cent Pakistani/Muslim population, with 20 per cent of Afro-Caribbean origin and 20 per cent white.

Mr Atkinson said: "David Cameron has been to the area two or three times in the past and has got to know it quite well.

"I think he's interested in the diverse mix of the area. We all get on quite well. He wanted to figure out what makes Abdullah and others in the area tick."

But Shakeel Qasim, 23, a shop owner on Balsall Heath's 'Balti Belt' on Ladypool Road, said: "He could've stayed with us or anyone on this road. It's fine driving up and down the road but what he was doing was just advertising.

"He didn't really seem like he wanted to go that extra mile and stay with a proper working class family."