This is Political Coency with Ed Bulls and George Osborne.

So we are recording remotely again.

Two in the afternoon here in Britain, slightly later,

because George Osborne is once again on his travels,

6am on the West Coast of America.

Now, a number of people have said to me in recent days, how's your hand, Ed?

Because, you know, my drumming injury.

My agents, Theo and Eve, bought me this special tool.

They said, you may think, Ed, this is to strengthen your hand with a bit of hand exercises.

They said, but it's actually a tool to stay calm when George Osborne's diary is once again in complete turmoil.

So if things get tense, just do a bit of this.

It has a double advantage.

It's curing my hand and also lowering my blood pressure when you are once again miles away. I used to have a little Ed Bulls stress ball actually that the Tory party

made back in the day and I could always just squeeze you when I was getting a little bit stressed

at work. I need to dig out my head balls, stress ball. Was it actually, was it a commercial

proposition? Was it a fundraising tool for the Tories? Yeah, you know, it was like a free giveaway at the Tory conference. There was like a bottler Brown that was like you could buy a beer of like Gordon Brown and you could buy an Ed Ball's another play on your surnames. It was a ball. That was old point. Oh, I see.

And then you could squeeze it.

It was like a squeezy ball with a picture of your face on it. And you could get like, we had an Ed, no, not Ed Miliband, sorry, a David Miliband banana stall. And, you know, this is what the best brains in the Tory Party used to spend their time dreaming up. Look, it might be that the George Osborne stress grip catches on as a way for people to manage

partnerships in business, political and public life.

Sorry, it looks like you're working at Tesco's like putting the prices on the end.

And now your phone's going, having just complained about what I'm up to.

I'm ignoring them, George, do you know why?

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