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

I'm Jonathan Derbyshire and in this week's episode we'll be discussing the terrorist attack on the Houses of Parliament,

Labour's continuing travails and the legacy of Martin McGinnis.

I'm delighted to be joined by Robert Shrimsley, managing editor of FT.com, Vincent Boland, the FT's Island correspondent, Jim Picard, chief political

correspondent, and the political commentator Miranda Green. Thank you all for joining me.

The usual business of Westminster was violently interrupted this week by a terrorist attack on Wednesday in which a policeman and three members of the public were killed. The perpetrator, Khalid Masood, was shot dead by the police. Shortly before the attack

there'd been testy exchanges at Prime Minister's questions

between Theresa May and the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

on the subject of schools funding.

For once Mr Corbyn caused the Prime Minister some discomfort in the

chamber, but while he was keeping his end up at the dispatch box, into Nissan's

squabbling in his party continued. With the Deputy Leader Tom Watson, describing plans by the left-wing ginger group

momentum to affiliate the United Union as entryism. Jim Picard you were in the

F.T.'s Westminster office when the attack took place. What did you see?

So I was having lunch with a conservative MP in Port Kullis House, which is the

office block above Westminster Tube, and we finished around half two and I

was walking back towards the FT's offices past a new

palace yard and I just got back to the office when we heard the bang and a few minutes later

you could see on Twitter was the first place we saw not surprisingly that something bad was happening and then a few minutes later you could look out of the windows from where some of the political journalists are based in the comments and you could look down into the courtyard and you could see two prone

figures on the cobbles there in the yard and it was pretty obvious that one of

them was a policeman and one of them was the presumed assailant and you could see

the emergency services there and more than 30 police standing there.

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