‘They’ve won me over’: chancellor’s constituents welcome budget

Samantha Krylczuk in Bramley, in Rachel Reeves’s Leeds West and Pudsey constituency, said she felt better knowing people were getting ‘good news’. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

In a vape shop in Bramley town centre, the popular flavours can sell out quickly. The area is a smoking and vaping hotspot – high above the national average – and it is also in chancellor Rachel Reeves’s constituency of Leeds West and Pudsey.

“Have you got any blueberry, love?” one customer asked, telling the Guardian that she had been smoking since the age of 11 and was much happier vaping instead. She was not pleased to hear the price of vapes would be going up 2% above the retail prices index, but concluded: “It’s still cheaper than cigs.”