{"id":288510,"date":"2025-07-24T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288510\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T18:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:00:33","slug":"euro-2025-no-plans-for-bank-holiday-if-england-win-euros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288510\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2025: &#8216;No plans&#8217; for bank holiday if England win Euros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their culture, media and sport spokesperson Max Wilkinson told BBC Sport: &#8220;Fans and patriots across the country deserve the chance to celebrate the talent, success and historic achievement of this amazing team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A bank holiday would also give our hospitality industry a much-needed assist and boost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-62329149\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no bank holiday<\/a> when England won the Euros for the first time in 2022. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Starmer &#8211; then leader of the opposition &#8211; backed the calls, proposing a &#8220;proper day of celebration&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He repeated that belief when England reached the World Cup final in 2023, writing on X that &#8220;there should be a celebratory bank holiday if the Lionesses bring it home&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport asked the government to respond to that apparent change of stance, but they did not wish to comment further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Their culture, media and sport spokesperson Max Wilkinson told BBC Sport: &#8220;Fans and patriots across the country deserve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-288510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114909520027574645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}