He has tabled an early day motion this morning calling for the anthem to be played before the switch over to BBC News 24.

It is the Tory MP's second attempt to restore the practice in Parliament, since it was scrapped in 1997.

Mr Rosindell told the Telegraph: “The British Broadcasting Corporation should be unashamedly British and playing our British National Anthem once a day on BBC1 is not much to ask.

"They used to do it and it’s time it was restored, to send out a message that Britain is back, following Brexit in tribute to Her Majesty in this, her 90th year!”