Martin Frizzell the producer of Morning is the husband of Fiona Phillips who used to be one of the presenters, so its all wheels within wheels.
Not wishing to be political but I don't believe in quotas on race or anything else for jobs - it should be the best people. Alison Hammond one of the new incumbents is not a journalist, but a one-time participant on a reality show, and in Brucie's words "didnt she do well". I wonder if she'll be involved with subjects like diets and national obesity though, because being terribly overweight she will easily take up the 2 spaces that Eamonn and Ruth left vacant on the sofa.