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Number 10 gives verdict on if there will be an extra bank holiday next year

Downing Street have denied claims that they are planning an extra Bank Holiday in 2025 (Credits: Getty)

Downing Street have denied claims there will be an extra bank holiday next year to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

There had been suggestions that Brits could have been set to enjoy an extra bank holiday next year, with a four-day weekend allegedly planned for the summer to commemorate the Golden Generation.

The rumoured bank holiday was believed to have been planned for either May 8, the anniversary of VE Day, or August 15, 80 years since the day Japan officially surrendered.

A four-day weekend was suggested to allow Brits to thank war veterans on what could have been the last anniversary that some of them would be alive to see.

However, the Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman has today confirmed that there will be no ‘extra bank holiday’ in the UK next summer.

LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 17: A general view of Number 10 Downing Street's front door on February 17, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
A spokesman for the Prime Minister said ‘plans do not include an additional bank holiday’ (Credits: Getty)

He said: ‘The 80th anniversaries of VE and VJ Day will be moments of huge significance for our country where we will come together to honour the memory of those who served, the legacy they left behind and what we owed them.

‘We are committed to commemorating these nationally important occasions appropriately, which is we have announced more than £10 million for events to mark them.

‘These plans do not include an additional bank holiday but we will look to use the existing early May bank holiday for commemorative events.’

He too confirmed that there will not be two extra days off to celebrate the Golden Generation.

There had been much excitement amongst the British public about the prospect of a few extra days off work following reports.

7th June 1944: Bomber crews of the US Ninth Airforce leave their B26 Marauder aircraft after returning from a mission to support the D-Day landings in Normandy by disrupting German lines of communication and supply. (Photo by Fred Ramage/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Next year marks 80 years since the end of the war (Picture: Getty)
British WWII veteran Alec Penstone poses after a UK veterans parade in Arromanches-les-Bains on June 6, 2024, as part of the "D-Day" commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the World War II Allied landings in Normandy. The D-Day ceremonies on June 6 this year mark the 80th anniversary since the launch of 'Operation Overlord', a vast military operation by Allied forces in Normandy, which turned the tide of World War II, eventually leading to the liberation of occupied France and the end of the war against Nazi Germany. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) (Photo by LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)
It was thought that thebank holiday would be an opportunity to ‘thank’ our war veterans (Picture: Loic Venace/ AFP via Getty Images)

War veterans too expressed their delight at the fact that Brits were set to celebrate ‘those who gave their lives for our freedom and peace in Europe.’

Geoff Roberts, a 99-year-old veteran who was captured in the airborne assault on Arnhem in 1944, told The Express: ‘I think it’s very important in these current times we remember those that gave their lives for our freedom and peace.

‘We should never forget them. Maybe an extra bank holiday will help to remind people about what’s happened in the past.’

Full list of all current UK bank holidays in 2025

  • New Year’s Day, January 1
  • Good Friday, April 18
  • Easter Monday, April 21
  • Early May (May Day), May 5
  • Spring bank holiday, May 26
  • Summer bank holiday, August 25
  • Christmas Day, December 25
  • Boxing Day, December 26

In recent years, Brits have enjoyed extra bank holidays to allow for celebrations to take place on more than one occasion.

Four fantastic days in June 2022 saw the country toast Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, 70 years after her accession to the throne.

The day of the Queen’s funeral was also marked with a bank holiday on Monday September 19th 2022.

And the coronation of King Charles was too celebrated with a bank holiday, this time on May 8, 2023.

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