A cross-party group of politicians is calling for the tower housing Big Ben to be renamed for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

So far 23 MPs have signed a Commons early day motion calling it to be formally named the Elizabeth Tower.

At present the world-famous landmark in central London is called St Stephen's Tower.

High profile backers of the idea include former foreign secretaries Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
'Unbroken service'

The motion was tabled by Conservative Tobias Ellwood.

He urged the House of Commons Commission to rename the tower in recognition of the Queen's "60 years of unbroken public service on behalf of her country".

It would not be the first time a Palace of Westminster tower has been renamed after a long-serving monarch.

When the Palace of Westminster was rebuilt in 1860, the west tower - then known as the King's Tower - was renamed the Victoria Tower.

That was to commemorate the reign of Queen Victoria, the only other monarch to have reached the 60-year milestone.

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Cool.

You can't rename a historic landmark

Read the article.

Cool

cool

TELL HA

Its lovely that they want to do that , at the rich history London has and
at the Queens milestone

YASSSS.

It would still be called the Big Ben, but the tower itself would have a different name.

Nice gesture

The Queen deserves it

It should be "St. Stephen's Tower that houses Big Ben to be renamed to Elizabeth Tower".

Well I mean you could, but I still wanna keep it named Big Ben

I've read it before posting.

One thing is to rename some flop tower that nobody heard of and another thing is to rename a world-famous landmark which is probably the UK is most known for.

But like that guy with Enrique avatar said, the article reads it wrong.

The actual Tower is not called Big Ben. It's the bell that is called the Big Ben, cos it's huge.
Since the name Big Ben is so catchy, the whole tower is mistakenly called Big Ben by most.
They can rename it into anything they like, but it will still be known as Big Ben.

Hence why I said that you can't rename a historic landmark of that significance.
It just won't stick.

The whole confusion is caused by the author of the article not doing his homework.

She deserves it

CLOCKED LIKE THE BIG BEN!!!