Dennis Canavan went on to establish a St Andrew’s day campaign committee, which still meets, with a distinguished membership including the Saltire Society, the St Andrew society, the Scottish Trades Union Congress, local government, churches, faith groups and a number of distinguished supporters including Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden, Sir Tom Farmer, Elaine C Smith and Craig Brown. That committee remains firmly of the view that, although the Parliament does not have the power to oblige all employers to give their employees a day off, it could and should do more to take forward the idea.