Andy Burnham’s pledge to reindustrialise Britain is doomed to fail unless it is driven decisively from his new No 10 North outpost in Manchester, a group of more than 90 backbench Labour MPs have said.

The PM has suggested that rebuilding the UK’s industrial capacity will be central to meeting his pledge to bring “good growth in every postcode” .

John Healey, who will deliver his first budget as chancellor on Wednesday, used his speech at Labour’s conference last month to promise a “new age of industrialisation”.

However, in a briefing paper seen by the Guardian, the backbenchers warn that decades of deindustrialisation and deregulation mean the government no longer has the detailed understanding of industry needed to make such a plan work.

“The state has lost capacity and has acquired a worrying set of behaviours which will inhibit reindustrialisation.…