Lessons from a lockdown lifted, while Trump stops WHO payments
As Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer calls for the UK government to reveal a lockdown exit strategy, the podcast looks at one country already lifting some restrictions. In Denmark, children up to the age...
15 Apr 202013min
UK coronavirus death toll ’50%’ higher than previously thought, as millions go hungry since lockdown
New figures show the death toll from coronavirus could be much higher than previously thought. Data from the Office for National Statistics exposes a difference of up to 50% between the reported figur...
14 Apr 202013min
Coronavirus UK lockdown: ‘critical’ we stay home despite hottest Easter weekend
The UK is entering a bank holiday, with potentially record temperatures expected, and the government's begging people to stay inside.Downing Street says it's "critical" the public doesn't give up on s...
9 Apr 202016min
No end in sight for coronavirus lockdown - plus isolation lessons from solitary confinement with Dr. Rangan Chatterjee.
There is no end in sight for lockdown in the UK. The Evening Standard’s political editor Joe Murphy has been watching closely and tells The Leader podcast that the signals all point to this continuing...
8 Apr 202017min
What happens when a Prime Minister falls ill?
Boris Johnson has now been in hospital for a couple of days, and there’s no word on when he’ll be coming out. The government says he’s “stable and in good spirits”, but he’s suffered breathing difficu...
7 Apr 202014min
With the Prime Minister in hospital, is the Queen the symbol of leadership we need?
Her Majesty is being praised for an address to the nation that inspired memories of the united efforts the UK made to get through the Second World War. The Evening Standard's associate editor Julian G...
6 Apr 202018min
London’s NHS Nightingale opens: ‘a shining light' in these dark times
London’s newest hospital, NHS Nightingale opened today after a heroic nine-day build. The field hospital, housed in London’s Excel Centre, will be the world’s largest critical care unit.NHS Nightingal...
3 Apr 20209min
Record deaths in a day - NOW will UK fix the testing fiasco? Plus, how coronavirus ‘could end rough sleeping’
As NHS England announces a record 561 deaths with coronavirus in a single day, the government faces relentless pressure to fix its testing ‘fiasco’. On Thursday the UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock an...
2 Apr 202017min
