Huge blow for vapers unveiled in Rachel Reeves’ gloomy Halloween Budget – how it will affect you

VAPES volition beryllium banned crossed the UK wrong 8 months, the Chancellor has confirmed.

New laws volition prohibit their sale from June 1, 2025 to support kids’ health.

The crackdown volition besides halt the scourge of integrative littering aft 5 cardinal vapes a week were thrown distant past twelvemonth — quadruple the fig from 2022.

The Government expects devolved nations successful Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to instrumentality the aforesaid cut-off date.

But refillable vapes volition stay disposable arsenic doctors usage them to assistance radical discontinue smoking.

The determination follows mounting fears that much kids are illegally buying disposables, galore of which present travel successful agleam packaging with flavours including bubblegum, candy floss and cola.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said: "I tin corroborate that the Government volition renew the Tobacco Duty escalator for the remainder of this Parliament astatine RPI+2%…"

She went connected to accidental they volition "increase work by a further 10% connected hand-rolling baccy this year" and "introduce a level complaint work connected each vaping liquid from October 2026".

Ms Reeves said this volition beryllium alongside an "additional 1 disconnected summation successful baccy duty" to support the inducement to springiness up smoking.

"And we volition summation the Soft Drinks Industry Levy to relationship for ostentation since it was introduced…as good arsenic expanding the work successful enactment with CPI each twelvemonth going forward.

"These measures volition rise astir £1bn per twelvemonth by the extremity of the forecast period."

PM Sir Keir Starmer is braced for further accusations of “nanny state” interference pursuing a slew of measures, including the proposed outdoor smoking ban.

Health Minister Andrew Gwynne said: “It’s profoundly worrying that a 4th of 11 to 15-year-olds utilized a vape past year.

“That is wherefore we volition beryllium banning single-use vapes arsenic we instrumentality enactment to extremity our throwaway culture.”

A disposable vape sells for £3-£10 depending connected the brand, with the full e-cig manufacture worthy an estimated £2.8billion successful Britain.

Former PM Rishi Sunak initially announced plans to prohibition disposable vapes this January.

He acted implicit grounds showing the fig of children utilizing them had tripled successful 3 years.

The fig of those taking up the wont crossed each property groups has ballooned by much than 400 per cent since 2012.

While supportive of Mr Sunak’s program astatine the time, Labour did not see a projected prohibition successful its predetermination manifesto.