Welcome to Keep Sunday Special
Some of you may have seen the recent report in the Daily Telegraph revealing that some of the leading clothing retailers in the UK had written to the government asking for a change in the law so that big shops could open on Boxing Day, which this year falls on a Sunday. It’s bad enough that shops want to open on Boxing Day anyway, which was traditionally a gift in the form of a day of rest to people in service positions. How much worse it is to make people work when Boxing Day falls on a Sunday.
The Keep Sunday Special Campaign is firmly opposed to this and has now written to the new Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, insisting that the government does not try to change the law. We will let you know what he says as soon as we receive his reply. At the moment we are in close touch with many of our partners and ready to mount a vigorous campaign if the government will not give us the assurances we seek. We do not want to see the principle of the 1994 Sunday Trading Act undermined in any degree whatsoever.
Many will regret that the ‘January Sales’, as they were until very recently called, now start straight after Christmas. This year both Christmas and Boxing Day fall over the weekend so that there will be substitute bank holidays on both the Monday and Tuesday of the next week, giving people plenty of time to shop.
