Budget 2025: “I don't feel like anything changes”: Leeds reacts to the Autumn Budget

Tracy, 55, a legal secretary from Leeds, West Yorkshire, said she will never be voting for Labour again after today's budget.

Tracy said: "It is hard as it is, for people like myself and my daughter who has children balancing our wages now. It's very hard to do that. Labour has broken a manifesto promise doing this. I don't know what the country has become. Everything is wrong. I voted Labour before, but never again. I didn't vote last year. I don't feel like anything changes. How I feel about the government wouldn't be suitable to say on camera."

She also said she is disappointed by the pension salary sacrifice tax saying she will potentially reduce her contributions.

She said: "What's the point of paying into a pension when they are going to take it anyway? What is the point? I'll keep my money in my savings or I'll pay it into my children's bank accounts for them to look after."

Patsy Walton, 58, a retiree from Leeds, said young people will have it rough following the new fiscal drag tax announcement.

Patsy said: "I have no confidence in Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer, or the Labour government. I don't like taxes going up full stop as it means people have less in their pockets. We do have to pay more tax, should it be at the lower end, no. They should have raised tax thresholds on those earning more as it most likely won't make a world of difference to them."

William Stretch, 17, says he is disappointed by the decision to raise taxes on working people and doesn't feel supported by Keir Starmer or the government.

The bricklayer from Leeds said: "I think the minimum wage going up is a positive. But us having to pay more taxes is a negative. It can force young people like myself to get into bad money habits. Overall I think it is a bad decision. They should be decreasing the taxes for us.

"I don't feel supported, not really, it's just staying the same. Nothing is changing really and I want to see some eventually."

Natalie Bellfield, 29, from Leeds who works in the NHS says removing the two child benefit cap may encourage people to have more kids.

She said: "I have one child who has special needs, but under different circumstances it probably would encourage me to have more. It would help me manage child care payments and I'm sure would improve the quality of life for children for working people. But also it could keep people staying out of work which isn't a good thing."

Olivie Kalejova, 23, from Cardiff, Wales, said Rachel Reeves is breaking a manifesto promise by freezing income tax rates.

The legal assistant said: "I voted Labour and I'm disappointed by the decision. She has broken a manifesto promise in my opinion even though she has not explicitly raised income tax."