Is China Coronavirus ‘as deadly as Spanish flu”? Also: inside Lisa Nandy's Labour leader race, and the legacy of a comedy legend

<p>UK Health organisations have stepped up precautions over the outbreak of the new pneumonia-like <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/china-coronavirus-news-live-polio-swine-flu-ebola-a4340911.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Coronavirus</a>.&nbsp;The World Health Organisation are likely to declare the disease a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Heathrow airport will screen travellers from the Chinese region of the outbreak as they arrive. The Leader podcast speaks to the Evening Standard’s City Hall editor Ross Lydall, who was briefed today that the virus could be ‘as deadly as Spanish flu’.</p><br><p><strong>Lisa Nandy enters Labour race:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/lisa-nandy-tony-blair-gordon-brown-thatcherism-a4340981.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lisa Nandy has set out her stall for the Labour leadership race</a> with plans to change to tax and welfare policies. Sophia Sleigh updates The Leader podcast from the Evening Standard’s Westminster office.</p><br><p><strong>Terry Jones dies</strong></p><p>Monty Python legend <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/terry-jones-dead-monty-python-actor-a4341356.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Terry Jones has died</a> aged 77. Terry was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2016 leaving him unable to give interviews. Chief theatre critic Nick Curtis joins the Leader podcast to discuss the legacy of ‘one of Britain’s greats’.</p><br><p><strong>TRANSCRIPT:</strong></p><br><p>David Marsland&nbsp;0:00&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Thank you for listening to The Leader. Please do subscribe, rate, comment and like wherever you get your podcasts so you don't miss an episode. We've got some really good guests coming up in the days ahead, now from the Evening Standard in London, this is The Leader</p><br><p>Hi, I'm David Marsland, Heathrow Airport's screening some passengers as doctors tried to halt a deadly mutating virus from China. But is it already h