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MPs want to rename the entrance to Parliament after brave Keith Palmer, the PC stabbed to death near there last year.

The giant wrought iron gates were open when terrorist Khalid Masood , 52, stormed in wielding a knife last March after mowing down more than 50 pedestrians in a car on Westminster Bridge.

Keith Palmer, 48, was killed trying to stop him and received a postumous George Medal.

Now 72 MPs of all parties led by Labour’s Matt Western and Jack Dromey want Carriage Gates to be known as Palmer Gates.

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They say this would “mark his gallantry and ultimate sacrifice in putting his life before those he courageously sought to defend.”

They are asking ministers to earmark the March 22nd first anniversarry of the attack as the day for the naming ceremony.

Commons leader Andrew Leadsom has already agreed to a memorial stone to the dead officer to be placed outside Parliament.

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But the MPs say she should go further to “commemorate his life and professional service.”

PC Palmer was unarmed when he was attacked. First aid attempts by Tory minister and former Army officer Tobias Ellwood failed to save him.

Masood was shot dead by then Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon’s bodyguards.