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Calling it Elizabeth Tower instead of Big Ben is like calling it X instead of Twitter.
Let's rename it after St Stephen Fry.
As an atheist, I would happily worship him.
I'm not entirely sure I don't already.
Except that before 2012 it was St. Stephen's Tower. Big Ben was the largest bell in the tower.
If there's some point that the tower was officially named Big Ben I haven't found it. Granted that was the popular nickname of it during the 20th century.