Lionesses | Calls grow for extra bank holiday if England women's team wins the World Cup

The Government is being urged to “do the right thing” and create a new bank holiday if the England Women’s team wins the World Cup.

The Lionesses will play Spain in this weekend’s final after defeating Australia 3-1 in the semi-finals earlier this week.

With the men’s team reaching a World Cup semi-final in 2018 and a European Championships final in 2021, debates at the time centred on the nation being given an extra day off to celebrate in the event that Three Lions were victorious.

But ministers have said there are no such plans in place if the women’s team triumphs.