A senior Tory MP has called for a bank holiday to be named as "Elizabeth Day" in honour of Her Majesty.
Tobias Ellwood, who chairs the Commons Defence Committee, said the gesture would recognise the monarch's "lifetime service" to her country.
An online petition to make September 8 - the date of the Queen's death - a permanent "Queen Elizabeth Day" bank holiday has also attracted almost 140,000 signatures.
