Letter to the editor: It is time now we revisited the issue of having a bank holiday on the day our nation should be celebrating its patron, Saint George.
There are question marks over the future of the May Day Bank holiday, which comes in the middle of the school term and which is close to the Whitsun bank holiday at half term.
Of our four home nations, only England does not mark its own saint’s day with a national public holiday, and consequently many of us find ourselves joining with the Irish to celebrate St Patrick’s Day instead.
I believe it is time to end this anomaly and move the May Day holiday to April 23 and declare St George’s Day an annual public holiday for the people of England.
RICHARD ASHWORTH, Conservative MEP for the south east
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