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 h...
28 Jan 20217min
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 a...
27 Jan 202110min
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...
26 Jan 202112min
‘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 travel...
25 Jan 202110min
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 ...
22 Jan 20217min
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 ...
21 Jan 202119min
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,...
20 Jan 202114min
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 Tr...
19 Jan 202116min
