Kirsty Wark has emerged as favourite to replace David Dimbleby on Question Time after he confirmed his departure from the programme.<\/p>\n
Dimbleby has fronted the political debate show for 25-years but he has decided he will be leaving at the end of 2018.<\/p>\n
Now Bookmakers have compiled their list of favourites and Newsnight’s Wark has emerged as the front-runner, ahead of the likes of BBC news anchor Huw Edwards, and political journalist Nick Robinson.<\/p>\n
“This is a job that has not been available for over a life time, but under Dimbley’s stewardship it has developed into a BBC institution,” said OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton.<\/p>\n
“Now it is fair to see a scramble is set to take place, but Wark is hugely respected and it is easy to see why she is favourite.”<\/p>\n
Selected odds on next Question Time host:<\/strong><\/span> Kirsty Wark has emerged as favourite to replace David Dimbleby on Question Time after he confirmed his departure from the programme. Dimbleby has fronted the political debate show for 25-years but he has decided he will be leaving at the end of 2018. Now Bookmakers have compiled their list of favourites and Newsnight’s Wark has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"categories":[5046,74,1640,2703],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2930,2813,2882,5941,2811,3917,3006,5991,4183,5946,5950,5986,5995,5993,5994,1993,5947,2926,2687,5987],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4116,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions\/4116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n4\/1 Kirsty Wark
\n4\/1 Huw Edwards
\n7\/1 Nick Robinson
\n8\/1 Jeremy Paxman
\n12\/1 Evan Davis
\n12\/1 John Humphrys
\n14\/1 Victoria Derbyshire
\n16\/1 Emily Maitlis
\n16\/1 Laura Kuenssberg
\n25\/1 Andrew Marr
\n25\/1 Andrew Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"