People need “the time to enjoy” St David’s Day in Wales and St Piran’s Day in Cornwall, Plaid Cymru’s Westminster leader has said amid calls for bank holidays.
Ben Maguire, the Liberal Democrat MP for North Cornwall, intervened in her speech and asked: “Would (Ms Saville-Roberts) support my calls to make St Piran’s Day – the national day of Cornwall – a bank holiday which is taking place on March 5?”.
But people in Northern Ireland and Scotland receive bank holidays to mark patron saints’ feast days – St Patrick’s Day on March 17 and St Andrew’s Day on November 30.
Neither St David’s Day on March 1 nor St Piran’s Day on March 5 are bank holidays.
In a debate to mark St David’s Day, which takes place on Saturday, Liz Saville-Roberts told the Commons that not having a bank holiday for the event “doesn’t stop us from coming together to celebrate” Wales.
