Another Dimbleby heads to Westminster

Westminster is synonymous with the word ‘Dimbleby’, the surname of Britain’s premier broadcasting family. It was here that patriarch Richard cemented his reputation commenting on George VI’s lying-in-state in 1952 and where his two sons Jonathan and David both made their careers on countless BBC and ITV political programmes and all night election specials. 

But since the brothers retired from their long running programmes Any Questions and Question Time in 2019 SW1 has been sadly bereft of a Dimbleby – unless you include David’s eldest son and Leon co-founder Henry who leads the National Food Strategy. All that however is about to change as David’s youngest son Fred is set to move to Westminster for ITV as a multimedia producer, having been on the broadcaster’s trainee scheme since 2019.