Labour MP's astonishing outburst at plan to rename Big Ben tower for the Queen - a 'fifth-generation German'

A left-wing Labour MP last night launched a campaign to stop Big Ben tower being renamed the Elizabeth Tower in honour of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Ex-miner Ronnie Campbell said he resented being ‘ruled over by fifth-generation Germans who changed their name from Battenberg to Windsor’.

The anti-monarchist denounced a plan backed by Tory Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Labour’s Jack Straw to rename the tower containing Big Ben the Elizabeth Tower as ‘a load of codswallop’.

The MP for Blyth Valley in Northumberland said: ‘I don’t think the Queen would want it. She is probably embarrassed.

These MPs are only doing it to suck up to her. Big Ben has always been known as Big Ben and always will be. It is ludicrous to change it. Read More