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The incoming South Yorkshire mayor must show vision and ambition to turbocharge the region’s Covid recovery and lay the foundations for sustainable, long-term prosperity.

Helping firms and consumers tackle crippling energy costs, incentivising investment longer term and implementing a decarbonisation strategy underpinning the UK’s economic resilience are three areas of progress firms are seeking from the Spring Statement.

UK manufacturing output grew at a brisk pace in the three months to March, but the balance of manufacturers expecting to increase prices rose to a survey record high, according to the latest monthly CBI Industrial Trends Survey.