What Margaret Thatcher did on May Day Bank Holidays
The May Day Bank Holiday was introduced by a Labour Government in 1978 to fall on the first Monday after May 1st if it did not itself fall on a Monday.
In May 3rd 1979 the Thatcher Tory Government was elected.
In recent years there have been numerous calls from the right, one presumes mainly from Thatcherites, for the May Day Holiday to be scrapped and for it to be replaced with a Trafalgar Day or even a Thatcher Day in the Autumn.
Fortunately the Thatcher Foundation Archive provides details of what Mrs Thatcher herself did on May Day Bank Holidays:
Monday May 5th 1980 Chequers
1030 Hair
1515 Mr. and Mrs. Wolfson and children arrived for tea
1900 Left for London
Monday May 4th 1981
BANK HOLIDAY
[Chequers]
Lunch with Carol, Mark and DT
1630 Left for No. 10.
Monday May 2 1983
1500 Return to London
Supper in flat + three guests
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