VIDEO: Loud rumble of thunder above Westminster disrupts BBC’s Brexit coverage

Westminster has been used to a bit of turbulence over the past few weeks as Brexit negotiations go down to the wire.

But today the weather provided some extra drama as a thunderstorm gathered over the Houses of Parliament.

One particularly loud rumble disrupted BBC News coverage of the ongoing political turmoil, throwing the guests being interviewed off their stride.

Lara Spirit, from the Our Future Our Choice group, was explaining her support for a second referendum when she was interrupted from above.

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Is that the #BrexitStorm, @BBCLauraK??https://t.co/L7Mnul2Cno (turn your sound on) pic.twitter.com/Oqd0ABAPH0

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) April 3, 2019

Host Simon McCoy said: “I thought I’d dealt with everything, you can have shouting and everything but now we’ve got this thunderstorm… the timing of that is perfect.”

“Having a second referendum would bring about such thunder and anger in this country,” responded Lucy Harris, who represents Leavers Britain.

A storm certainly seems to be brewing today for Theresa May as she came under intensive fire from her own side for her decision to seek a Brexit compromise with Jeremy Corbyn.

One minister resigned and a string of MPs launched attacks on the move.

Wales minister and whip Nigel Adams said the Prime Minister had made a “grave error” by reaching out to the Labour leader in the hope of finding a consensus  on Brexit ahead of a crunch EU summit on April 10.

Leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg described the offer to Mr Corbyn as “deeply unsatisfactory” and accused Mrs May of planning to collaborate with “a known Marxist”.

And normally-loyal Caroline Johnson joined a clutch of Tory backbenchers at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons who spoke out against what she called “the risk of letting down the country and ushering in a Marxist, anti-Semite led government”.