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, ...
14 Jan 202110min
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” sys...
13 Jan 202112min
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...
12 Jan 202111min
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...
11 Jan 202112min
Coronavirus: A major incident's been declared in London
Health editor Ross Lydall joins the show to explain why the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has "put up the biggest red flag he can" as coronavirus runs rampant through the city. Ross tells us what that ...
8 Jan 20218min
Where does the US, and Donald Trump, go after the Capitol Hill chaos?
A special edition of the Leader looks at the violence and rioting by Trump supporters at the Capitol in Washington. With contributions from reporters, historians, security experts and some of those wh...
7 Jan 202111min
Vaccine ‘mega-centres’ are coming, but the government’s had to cancel school exams; & Democrats win in Georgia.
Boris Johnson’s under huge pressure to deliver a successful vaccine roll-out today as he promised MPs a “means of escape” from lockdown. Our political editor, Joe Murphy, says the Prime Minister’s ann...
6 Jan 202113min
Covid Lockdown until March... at least? And Bridgerton & the evolution of the period drama
Michael Gove appears to have contradicted the Prime Minister's suggestion that the new lockdown in England will end in February, by suggesting it'll be March before restictions are lifted. The Evening...
5 Jan 202110min
