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Hello, I'm Alicia McCarthy, and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for BBC Radio 4 for Monday the 13th of October,

where the Home Secretary says an attack on a synagogue in Manchester was an evil act of anti-Semitic terrorism.

Voices in the Jewish community had long been warning that this day would come

and that Jews who had long felt safe in this country, in their country, now no longer do.

Also on this programme, after charges were dropped against two men accused of

spying for China, the Conservatives say the government's to blame. This wasn't a mistake.

This wasn't a misunderstanding. This looks like a deliberate decision to collapse the case.

And one Lib Dem MP offers the science secretary an alternative title for her new

business card. I'm concerned that she is fast becoming the minister for lost causes. But first,

the Home Secretary has condemned an attack on a Manchester synagogue in which two men died and three

were injured as an evil act of anti-Semitism.

Jihad al-Shami targeted the site in Crumsel on Yong Kippur the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

He drove his car at people outside the synagogue and then attacked others with a knife

while wearing what turned out to be a fake suicide belt.

Making a statement to MPs on their return to Westminster after the three-week conference break, Shabana Mahmood paid tribute to the victims, Melvin Kravitz and Adrian Dahlby,

who's thought to have been shot by a police bullet as he ran to stop the attacker getting into the synagogue.

This is a moment of profound national sorrow.

An attack on our Jewish community is an attack on this entire nation.

The Home Secretary said the attacker had come to the UK as a child and was thought to have been influenced by extreme Islamist ideology,

but he hadn't been known to the security services. He was killed by the police at the scene.

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