IF YOU find politicians send you sleep, then this may just be the perfect gift for unruly children.

Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha have both recorded children’s stories for a local charity making audio books for the blind.

And to raise money for the Calibre Audio Library, the Witney MP’s Etonian tones can be bought on a £5 CD to make an unusual Christmas present.

The PM put aside time at his party conference in September to record his measured version of Hamish Goes Swimming by Humphrey Carter, while Dick King Smith’s Emily’s Legs is brought to life by Mrs Cameron’s slightly more animated take.

Charity director Michael Lewington, from Wootton said: “Both of them were very good readers.

“I imagine they read to their children.

“The Prime Minister emphasised very well, but I don’t think he put on any acting-type voices.

“Samantha Cameron read as if she was reading to children.”

The audio library was set up in 1974, and sends out 1,800 recordings a day on CD or memory stick to its 19,600 members.

In Oxfordshire, it has 430 members, both adults and children, who suffer sight problems, dyslexia, or a physical disability that prevents them from being able to read books.

Most of its recordings are made by professional actors or trained volunteers.

But children who have trouble going to sleep may find other remedies among a selection of recordings by fellow Cabinet members, who entered soundbooths at this year’s Manchester conference.

Mr Lewington picked out Iain Duncan Smith and William Hague among the Cabinet’s recording stars.

Some keen politicians had even made notes about the characters in the children’s stories when they turned up to record them, he revealed.

He said he hoped the Camerons’ recordings would sell as novelty Christmas presents to raise money for the charity.

Mr Cameron told the Oxford Mail: “I was delighted to take a moment away from conference to record a children’s story for the visually impaired.

“It is a wonderful cause, which the Conservative Party continues to support.”

* The recordings are available from calibre.org.uk