I wonder if that still applies if a monarch dies.
No expense spared for Her Maj.
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I think that did bring in more money due to tourism. Same with the coronation. However, I can also see a St George's day Bank Holiday generating that. Quite a bit of tourism here in Ulster for St Patrick's day.
so weird considering st andrews day has been a bank holiday since 2007
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In 2017, then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he wanted four new UK-wide bank holidays to mark each UK nation's patron saint day.
"I have the great pleasure in this job of travelling round the world and hearing how other people talk about what it means to be English, what we stand for, and I think we need to have that same pride too."
Northern Ireland has two extra bank holidays to mark St Patrick's Day on 17 March and the Battle of the Boyne in July.
In the same year, workers got an extra bank holiday to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee.
At the time, business leaders urged the prime minister to make the bank holiday permanent arguing it would boost the economy.
Government modelling put the cost of an extra bank holiday at £1.36bn, while accountancy firm PwC estimated the figure would be closer to £831m.
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