May Day Bank Holiday marks international workers day NOT Royal events
King Charles has announced that his Coronation will be on Saturday May 6th (vote not required)
This provoked calls for a Bank Holiday to mark the occasion, followed by demands that the May Day Bank Holiday be moved to address this point (Times Editorial 13th Oct).
Perhaps needless to say Keir ‘not the history man’ Starmer also backed the move. This seems odd because just a few months ago the Labour leader was demanding an additional bank holiday to mark the Lionesses football victory.
May Day is a Bank Holiday introduced by a previous Labour Government to mark international workers day. It is held on the nearest Monday to May Day itself and the aim was to undercut the tradition of workers taking strike action on the day itself, which had existed since the 1890s.
May Day and Royal Coronations do not I’m afraid compute
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