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Welcome to F.T. Politics, a weekly podcast on British politics from the Financial Times.

I'm Sebastian Payne, digital comment editor, and this week we'll be discussing Barack Obama's

visit to the UK and his intervention in the EU referendum.

Plus, has the government done the right thing by stalling its latest

academy's programme? To do this, I'm delighted to be joined by our deputy editor Rula

Kalaf, the F.T. Chief Political Comment commentator Philip Stevens, public policy reporter

Gonzalo Vina and Isabel Beric Assistant features editor. Thank you all for

joining. So let's begin with Barack Obama's visit to the UK, which has undoubtedly been the focus of the referendum

campaign this week. The president dropped by to see the Queen on her 90th birthday, but more

importantly for a political podcast anyway anyway was his long-awaited intervention in the Brexit campaign.

President Obama attacked those campaigning for Britain wanting to leave the EU,

arguing that our membership magnifies the power of Britain and warned that a US-UK

trade deal won't be happening anytime soon.

He also made some interesting remarks about NATO and that infamous Winston Churchill bust in the Oval Office.

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