Calls to rename Heathrow airport after Queen Elizabeth II to mark a century since her birth
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A Labour MP has called to rename Heathrow airport after Queen Elizabeth II to mark her 100 year birthday.
Mr Jogee, in connection with the discussion around a third runway, has called for the Prime Minister to back his proposal of renaming Heathrow airport.
The MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme said that renaming Heathrow after the late Queen would be ‘a wonderful tribute for a lifetime of service to the country and the Commonwealth.’
Heathrow originally got its name in September 1966 to help distinguish it from other London airports, like Gatwick and Stansted. Before then it had simply been known as London Airport.
This is not the first time that there have been calls to rename the UK’s largest airport after royalty.
It was suggested for Diana, Princess of Wales, after she was killed in a car crash in France back in September 1997.
Then-Conservative Party leader, and now peer, Lord Hague of Richmond backed the idea, as did newly elected Labour MP turned Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle.
Sir Lindsay told the BBC in 1997 that it would be a ‘marvellous working tribute’ to her.
Currently, Terminal 2 of Heathrow is known as the ‘Queens Terminal’ after the late queen opened it in 2014.
Airports in others parts of the UK, such as Liverpool and Belfast, are named after public figures John Lennon and George Best respectively, who have links to the cities.
The Commons Leader, Lucy Powell praised Mr Jogee’s proposition as an ‘excellent idea.’
In response to MP Adam Jogee, Powell told the Commons that:
‘He is absolutely right that we need to properly and appropriately and in a very big way mark the late Queen’s extraordinary 70-year reign as the monarch of this country and all that she contributed to our public life, and national identity.
‘There is, he will be aware, the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee that has been set up to consider how best we could do that, and I will absolutely ensure that his suggestion will be fed into that committee.’
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A Labour MP has called to rename Heathrow airport after Queen Elizabeth II to mark her 100 year birthday.
Mr Jogee, in connection with the discussion around a third runway, has called for the Prime Minister to back his proposal of renaming Heathrow airport.
The MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme said that renaming Heathrow after the late Queen would be ‘a wonderful tribute for a lifetime of service to the country and the Commonwealth.’
Heathrow originally got its name in September 1966 to help distinguish it from other London airports, like Gatwick and Stansted. Before then it had simply been known as London Airport.
This is not the first time that there have been calls to rename the UK’s largest airport after royalty.
It was suggested for Diana, Princess of Wales, after she was killed in a car crash in France back in September 1997.
Then-Conservative Party leader, and now peer, Lord Hague of Richmond backed the idea, as did newly elected Labour MP turned Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle.
Sir Lindsay told the BBC in 1997 that it would be a ‘marvellous working tribute’ to her.
Currently, Terminal 2 of Heathrow is known as the ‘Queens Terminal’ after the late queen opened it in 2014.
Airports in others parts of the UK, such as Liverpool and Belfast, are named after public figures John Lennon and George Best respectively, who have links to the cities.
The Commons Leader, Lucy Powell praised Mr Jogee’s proposition as an ‘excellent idea.’
In response to MP Adam Jogee, Powell told the Commons that:
‘He is absolutely right that we need to properly and appropriately and in a very big way mark the late Queen’s extraordinary 70-year reign as the monarch of this country and all that she contributed to our public life, and national identity.
‘There is, he will be aware, the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee that has been set up to consider how best we could do that, and I will absolutely ensure that his suggestion will be fed into that committee.’
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