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===Use in media=== On 3 November 2016, [[Andrew Rosindell]], a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] MP, argued in an [[early day motion]] for a return to the broadcasting of the national anthem at the end of [[BBC One]] transmissions each day (the practice had been dropped in 1997, due to BBC One adopting 24-hour broadcasting by simulcasting [[BBC News (British TV channel)|BBC News 24]] overnight, rendering [[closedown]] obsolete),<ref>{{cite news|last=Hughes|first=Laura|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/03/tory-mp-calls-for-bbc-1-to-mark-brexit-with-national-anthem-at-t/|title=Tory MP calls for BBC 1 to mark Brexit with national anthem at the end of each day|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=3 November 2016|access-date=3 November 2016|archive-date=3 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103094333/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/03/tory-mp-calls-for-bbc-1-to-mark-brexit-with-national-anthem-at-t/|url-status=live}}</ref> to commemorate the [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|Brexit vote]] and [[Brexit|Britain's subsequent withdrawing]] from the [[European Union]]. At the evening of the same day, [[BBC Two]]'s ''[[Newsnight]]'' programme ended its nightly broadcast with host of that night [[Kirsty Wark]] saying that they were "incredibly happy to oblige" Rosindell's request, and then played a clip of [[God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols song)|the Sex Pistols' similarly named song]], much to Rosindell's discontent.<ref name="metro-gstq-troll">{{cite news | url = http://metro.co.uk/2016/11/04/bbc-just-trolled-a-conservative-mp-brilliantly-with-god-save-the-queen-6234486/ | title = BBC just trolled a conservative MP brilliantly with God Save the Queen | first = Simon | last = Robb | newspaper = [[Metro (British newspaper)|Metro]] | date = 4 November 2016 | access-date = 4 November 2016 | archive-date = 4 November 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161104204428/http://metro.co.uk/2016/11/04/bbc-just-trolled-a-conservative-mp-brilliantly-with-god-save-the-queen-6234486/ | url-status = live }}</ref> Since 18 January 2022, [[GB News]] has played the national anthem at the start of live programming every day.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Meighan |first1=Craig |title=GB News announces it will play God Save The Queen every single day |url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/19854142.gb-news-announces-will-play-god-save-queen-every-single-day/ |access-date=30 March 2022 |work=[[The National (Scotland)|The National]] |location=Glasgow |date=17 January 2022 |archive-date=29 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129123847/https://www.thenational.scot/news/19854142.gb-news-announces-will-play-god-save-queen-every-single-day/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Demianyk |first1=Graeme |title=Tories Celebrate GB News Playing 'God Save The Queen' Every Morning |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/gb-news-god-save-the-queen_uk_61e5cc6de4b0c6802eea7465 |access-date=30 March 2022 |work=[[HuffPost UK]] |date=17 January 2022 |archive-date=26 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126094806/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/gb-news-god-save-the-queen_uk_61e5cc6de4b0c6802eea7465 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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