Local MP calls for more public holidays
May 26, 2007 12:01 AM
North Southwark and Bermondsey MP Simon Hughes has tabled an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons calling for St George's Day and St David's Day to join St Patrick's Day and St Andrew's Day as public holidays.
The motion also calls for one day a year to be set aside to celebrate the huge benefit of the United Kingdom.
Commenting, Mr Hughes said:
"St Andrew's Day is now a public holiday in Scotland and St Patrick's Day is a public holiday in Northern Ireland. It is long overdue that St George's Day and St David's Day should also be public holidays for England and Wales respectively. All four countries of the UK have great national traditions to be proud of.
"It would also be good to mark much more overtly Commonwealth Day each March and United Nations Day each October. There is also a very strong case for one day a year when we celebrate the huge benefit of the United Kingdom.
"We currently have UK bank and public holidays to celebrate important events in the Christian calendar, the beginning of the New Year and May Day, and two more days for a break in May and August! Surely finding a day that the whole UK could celebrate is not beyond us."
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