This is Political Coancy with Ed Bulls and George Osborne.

So we are here.

I say here.

We're into entirely separate places and in very different time zones.

I'm recording in London, Wednesday early evening. George is in San Francisco on a Silicon Valley trip. So he's recording Wednesday morning. And because we're doing this late

in the day in Britain, it's going to land on Thursday in the UK. Polling will be just open

in the carefully by-election, which as we we said last week, could be a bit of an

earthquake in British politics. And it will also be the last day of voting in the Labour

Deputy Leadership context, less of an earthquake, but, you know, with significance. So this

podcast is landing on an important day. Yeah, it's morning in America here again, although I guess we're a bit

nervous of talks of earthquakes given I'm right in the middle of San Francisco. I'm looking

outside of my hotel bedroom at this absolutely iconic building, the Transamerica Pyramid,

which is that kind of triangular building in downtown San Francisco, which has got

a sort of strange, kind of reverse pyramid at the top to protect it in an earthquake.

Anyway, it's just been redone by Norman Foster, and it's got a spectacular interior,

which is totally open to the public.

And this whole area of San Francisco, I know people will tend to hear stories about how downtown San Francisco is a bit of a war zone.

And there's a lot of terrible situations with people with drug problems on the streets.

I have to say, I've noticed it's got quite a lot better since I last was here.

It feels like a kind of cleanup is underway. And there's quite a tough

Democrat mayor of San Francisco who is leading all of that. Every time I come to America,

I think you probably have the same feeling when you come. You're sort of re-energized and I've got

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