Sources: The Financial Times and UK public holidays. The Institute for Public Policy Research, a left-leaning think-tank, said in a recent paper that the new “British national day” should be launched as an extra bank holiday on the Monday after Remembrance Sunday, which would build on an existing commemoration rather than imposing something new and artificial. This is at odds with Prime Minister Gordon Brown's recent statement that he favoured July 24 for the new proposed public holiday (our news post of July 24).
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
UK Proposed New Public Holiday Could Be In November
Sources: The Financial Times and UK public holidays. The Institute for Public Policy Research, a left-leaning think-tank, said in a recent paper that the new “British national day” should be launched as an extra bank holiday on the Monday after Remembrance Sunday, which would build on an existing commemoration rather than imposing something new and artificial. This is at odds with Prime Minister Gordon Brown's recent statement that he favoured July 24 for the new proposed public holiday (our news post of July 24).
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