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Feb 5, 2021 · 13 min
Why Feb 15 is a “key date” for the Covid battle; and our 5 star review of ‘Handforth Parish Council’
Health editor Ross Lydall joins us to explain how two major milestones in the fight against coronavirus are about to converge on a single day.1.5 million people from London’s most at risk groups should have been vaccinated by February 15, which is also...
Feb 4, 2021 · 17 min
The Lockdown Sessions: Sadiq Khan on Covid and Mental Health
London Mayor Sadiq Khan tells us how the coronavirus pandemic has “exposed the institutional racism” in the city, with BAME communities hardest hit by the infection. In an interview with Ayesha Hazarika, he describes how he recognised something was wro...
Feb 3, 2021 · 17 min
Coronavirus: Why Asian communities were hardest hit in the second wave
London’s public health director, Professor Kevin Fenton, reveals the findings of his study into the spread of coronavirus in London through the pandemic so far. He’s discovered that the capital’s Asian community was hardest hit in the second wave of th...
Feb 2, 2021 · 12 min
What other Covid mutations are out there? And will Joe Biden curb ‘Big Tech’s’ power?
Political reporter Sophia Sleigh joins the podcast as scientists warn there may be other versions of coronavirus emerging. The Government’s former chief scientific adviser has said he is "more worried" about the South American covid variant t...
Feb 1, 2021 · 10 min
‘South Africa’ Covid found in London, and why the Met will continue “disproportionate” stop and search.
Political editor Joe Murphy’s back on the podcast as it’s revealed the more contagious ‘South Africa’ variant of coronavirus has been found in parts of London and Sussex. More than 100 cases have been discovered so far and surge testing is underway in ...
Jan 29, 2021 · 11 min
Why the EU wants covid vaccine from the UK, and the GameStop saga explained
Our deputy political editor Nicholas Cecil joins us as the EU dramatically ramps up a vaccines row with demands jabs made in the UK are sent to them. It follows European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen demanding AstraZeneca publish its contra...
Jan 28, 2021 · 7 min
The Inside story of Lockdown in Number 10
We’ve all struggled with being confined to our homes for the past year. But what has it been like for Carrie and Boris? Freddy Gray joins the podcast to talk about the inside scoops he picked up for his article on life behind Britain’s most fa...
Jan 27, 2021 · 10 min
100,000 Covid deaths: How we got there
A special edition of the Leader looking at the decisions made by the government and others that have taken the UK past the 100,000 coronavirus-related deaths figure. Adapted from an Evening Standard article by Jonathan Prynn, we use interviews and arch...
Jan 26, 2021 · 12 min
Have summer holidays been cancelled and where’s the school re-opening plan?
After vaccination minister Nadhim Zahawi advised millions of us to delay booking a summer holiday, the Leader podcast speaks to travel consultant Paul Charles about the state of the industry. He tells us there is “no plan” from the government to help a...
Jan 25, 2021 · 10 min
‘Quarantine hotels’ and how they could stop “vaccine-busting” covid-variants hitting the UK
The Evening Standard’s political editor Joe Murphy tells us what the government’s planning with proposed ‘quarantine hotels’. Under plans being decided by ministers over the next 24 hours, some travellers will be put on buses and driven directly to iso...
Jan 22, 2021 · 7 min
Young London SOS campaign launched to fight mental health crisis
To mark the launch of our YoungLondonSOS campaign, we’re joined by investigations editor David Cohen whose reporting has revealed how badly the pandemic has affected schoolchildren. 500,000 teenagers and children who had no mental health problems befor...
Jan 21, 2021 · 19 min
Barack Obama’s speechwriter: “I’d give Amanda Gorman a White House job in a heartbeat”.
The top speechwriter for the Obama administration, Cody Keenan, says he would give Amanda Gorman a job at the White House after astonishing the world with her inauguration poem.The 22-year-old’s “The Hill We Climb” was a highlight of the ceremony marki...
Jan 20, 2021 · 14 min
Ayesha Hazarika: Kamala Harris is “karmic justice” for Donald Trump.
Evening Standard columnist Ayesha Hazarika says new US vice president, Kamala Harris, “represents the two things Donald Trump hates the most: women and people of colour”. She tells the Leader podcast, the Trump administration was “founded on racism” an...
Jan 19, 2021 · 16 min
George Osborne: Under Trump the US has survived its greatest test since the Civil War
The Evening Standard’s editor-in-chief, George Osborne says the Republican party will never allow Donald Trump to run for the White House again. Speaking to our columnist Philip Collins, he says Mr Trump has been “unique,” testing the US constitution a...
Jan 18, 2021 · 10 min
Why London may be past the peak of Covid; and what will Biden’s first 100 days look like?
The Evening Standard’s political editor, Joe Murphy, tells us why London may have turned a corner in the battle against coronavirus. We’ve learned case numbers for the infection are now falling in every one of the capital’s boroughs, in some cases up t...
Jan 15, 2021 · 7 min
The hidden mental health crisis our children are facing in this pandemic
An Evening Standard investigation has revealed half a million under-18s who previously showed no signs of mental health issues are now facing problems, due to the lockdowns caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Investigations editor David Cohen j...
Jan 14, 2021 · 10 min
A vaccine row but is London beating coronavirus? & tensions in the US after Trump's impeachment
The Evening Standard's Nicholas Cecil joins the show as pressure grows on the government to send more vaccine doses to London. It's emerged the city's delivered just one tenth of the jabs nationally, which mayor Sadiq Khan says ...
Jan 13, 2021 · 12 min
London’s losing out in a ‘postcode lottery’ for the coronavirus vaccine; and Trump’s 2nd impeachment
Health editor Ross Lydall joins the podcast as the Evening Standard reveals London’s getting fewer doses of coronavirus vaccine per head than other areas of the country. t’s down to a “fair share” system that’s distributing the Oxford and Pfiz...
Jan 12, 2021 · 11 min
The inside story of Boris Johnson’s controversial bike ride, and a row over #FreeSchoolMeals
The Evening Standard’s Sophia Sleigh tells us how her Sunday outing to a local park ended up with a political controversy. She spotted Boris Johnson out on his bike in Stratford with a security detail, seven miles away from Downing Street, at a time wh...
Jan 11, 2021 · 12 min
A GP speaks as "worst weeks" for the NHS loom; and is it really Sex and the City without Samantha?
The Chief Medical Officer, Chris Witty, is warning the health service will face unprecedented pressures as coronavirus continues to spread. In London, an estimated one in twenty have the infection. We speak to Lewisham GP Dr Louise Irvine who describes...