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There’s definitely space in the schedule for them, hopefully we will get some regular presenting shifts now.

Honestly there might be space for some of them but there certainly is not space for 5 full time presenters, especially if they want to keep any of those who have stepped up over the past year to even remotely on side.
The current situation (once Maryam starts on the 18:00 shift) has a mix of reporter-presenters, correspondents and freelancers covering 2 shifts per day Monday to Thursday, 3 shifts on a Friday, 4 shifts each day at the weekend and 4 flagship slots per week with no fixed days. This is a total of 23 shifts per week that are not covered by either the chief presenters, Sally Bundock who appears to have a separate agreement, and studios outside of the UK.
If each of the 5 women were to present an average of 3.5 shifts per week that would be 17.5 of the 23 shifts being covered by them leaving only 5.5 shifts per week for (at least) 3 currently appointed reporter presenters and everybody else within the corporation who would see being returned to their substantive duties as an effective demotion and who would therefore be much more likely to seek employment elsewhere and many of whom are the potential next generation of lead presenters.