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Britain is on course to ending up being a 'second tier' European nation like Spain or Italy due to economic decrease and a weak military that weakens its usefulness to allies, an expert has actually warned.

Research professor Dr Azeem Ibrahim OBE concluded in a damning new report that the U.K. has been paralysed by low investment, high tax and misdirected policies that might see it lose its standing as a top-tier middle power at current growth rates.

The plain evaluation weighed that succeeding federal government failures in policy and attracting investment had triggered Britain to miss out on the 'industries of the future' courted by established economies.

'Britain no longer has the industrial base to logistically sustain a war with a near-peer like Russia for more than 2 months,' he composed in The Henry Jackson Society's most current report, Strategic Prosperity: The Case for Economic Growth as a National Security Priority.

The report evaluates that Britain is now on track to fall back Poland in terms of per capita earnings by 2030, which the main European country's armed force will quickly exceed the U.K.'s along lines of both manpower and devices on the present trajectory.

'The problem is that as soon as we are downgraded to a 2nd tier middle power, it's going to be virtually impossible to get back. Nations do not return from this,' Dr Ibrahim told MailOnline today.

'This is going to be sped up decline unless we nip this in the bud and have bold leaders who are able to make the challenging choices today.'

People pass boarded up shops on March 20, 2024 in Hastings, England

A British soldier reloads his rifle on February 17, 2025 in Smardan, Romania

Staff Sergeant Rai uses a radio to talk to Archer teams from 19th Regiment Royal Artillery during a live fire variety on Rovajärvi Training Area, throughout Exercise Dynamic Front, Finland

Dr Ibrahim invited the federal government's decision to increase defence costs to 2.5% of GDP from April 2027, however warned much deeper, systemic problems threaten to irreversibly knock the U.K. from its position as an internationally prominent power.

With a weakening commercial base, Britain's usefulness to its allies is now 'falling back even second-tier European powers', he alerted.

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'Not only is the U.K. anticipated to have a lower GDP per capita than Poland by 2030, however also a smaller army and one that is not able to sustain implementation at scale.'

This is of specific concern at a time of increased geopolitical stress, with Britain pegged to be amongst the leading forces in Europe's fast rearmament project.

'There are 230 brigades in Ukraine today, Russian and Ukrainian. Not a single European nation to install a single heavy armoured brigade.'

'This is an enormous oversight on the part of subsequent governments, not just Starmer's problem, of stopping working to purchase our military and basically contracting out security to the United States and NATO,' he informed MailOnline.

'With the U.S. getting tiredness of offering the security umbrella to Europe, Europe now has to stand on its own and the U.K. would have been in a premium position to really lead European defence. But none of the European nations are.'

Slowed defence spending and patterns of low efficiency are nothing new. But Britain is now also 'failing to adjust' to the Trump administration's shock to the rules-based global order, stated Dr Ibrahim.

The previous advisor to the 2021 Integrated Defence and Security Review noted in the report that in spite of the 'weakening' of the organizations once 'secured' by the U.S., Britain is reacting by damaging the last vestiges of its military might and economic power.

The U.K., he said, 'appears to be making progressively pricey gestures' like the ₤ 9bn handover of the tactical Chagos Islands and opening talks on reparations for Caribbean Slavery.

The surrender of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean has been the source of much scrutiny.

Negotiations in between the U.K. and Mauritius were begun by the Tories in 2022, however a contract was revealed by the Labour government last October.

Dr Jack Watling of the Royal United Services Institute defence and security believe thank warned at the time that 'the move demonstrates worrying tactical ineptitude in a world that the U.K. government describes as being characterised by terrific power competitors'.

Require the U.K. to offer reparations for its historic function in the servant trade were rekindled likewise in October last year, though Sir Keir Starmer stated ahead of a meeting of Commonwealth nations that reparations would not be on the agenda.

A Challenger 2 primary fight tank of the British forces throughout the NATO's Spring Storm in Kilingi-Nomme, Estonia, Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk speak throughout an interview in Warsaw, Poland, January 17, 2025

Dr Ibhramin assessed that the U.K. appears to be acting against its own security interests in part due to a narrow understanding of risk.

'We understand soldiers and rockets but fail to totally conceive of the danger that having no alternative to China's supply chains may have on our ability to respond to military aggressiveness.'

He suggested a new security design to 'enhance the U.K.'s tactical dynamism' based upon a rethink of migratory policy and hazard evaluation, access to rare earth minerals in a market controlled by China, and the prioritisation of energy security and self-reliance via investment in North Sea gas and a long-overdue rethink on atomic energy.

'Without immediate policy changes to reignite development, Britain will end up being a diminished power, reliant on more powerful allies and susceptible to foreign coercion,' the Diplomacy columnist said.

'As international economic competition heightens, the U.K. must choose whether to embrace a strong growth agenda or resign itself to irreparable decrease.'

Britain's dedication to the idea of Net Zero might be admirable, however the pursuit will hinder development and obscure strategic objectives, he warned.

'I am not saying that the environment is not essential. But we merely can not manage to do this.

'We are a nation that has actually failed to purchase our financial, in our energy infrastructure. And we have considerable resources at our disposal.'

Nuclear power, including using small modular reactors, might be an advantage for the British economy and energy independence.

'But we have actually stopped working to commercialise them and undoubtedly that's going to take a significant amount of time.'

Britain did introduce a brand-new funding design for nuclear power stations in 2022, which lobbyists including Labour political leaders had actually insisted was crucial to discovering the cash for costly plant-building tasks.

While Innovate UK, Britain's development agency, has been declared for its grants for small energy-producing business in the house, entrepreneurs have cautioned a larger culture of 'threat aversion' in the U.K. stifles investment.

In 2022, incomes for the poorest 14 million people fell by 7.5%, per the ONS. Pictured: Waterlooville High Street, Waterlooville, Hants

Undated file image of The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) or Chagos Islands

Britain has regularly stopped working to acknowledge the looming 'authoritarian threat', permitting the trend of managed decrease.

But the revival of autocracies on the world phase threats further weakening the rules-based international order from which Britain 'benefits tremendously' as a globalised economy.

'The danger to this order ... has actually developed partly because of the absence of a robust will to safeguard it, owing in part to ponder foreign efforts to overturn the acknowledgment of the real lurking threat they position.'

The Trump administration's cautioning to NATO allies in Europe that they will need to do their own bidding has gone some way towards waking Britain approximately the seriousness of purchasing defence.

But Dr Ibrahim warned that this is insufficient. He prompted a top-down reform of 'essentially our whole state' to bring the ossified state back to life and sustain it.

'Reforming the welfare state, reforming the NHS, reforming pensions - these are basically bodies that use up enormous amounts of funds and they'll just keep growing considerably,' he informed MailOnline.

'You could double the NHS budget plan and it will truly not make much of a damage. So all of this will require essential reform and will take a great deal of nerve from whomever is in power due to the fact that it will make them undesirable.'

The report describes suggestions in radical tax reform, pro-growth migration policies, and a restored focus on protecting Britain's role as a leader in modern markets, energy security, and worldwide trade.

Vladimir Putin talks with the governor of Arkhangelsk region Alexander Tsybulsky throughout their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 11, 2025

File picture. Britain's financial stagnation could see it soon end up being a '2nd tier' partner

Boarded-up stores in Blackpool as more than 13,000 shops closed their doors for great in 2024

Britain is not alone in falling back. The Trump administration's insistence that Europe pay for its own defence has cast fresh light on the Old Continent's alarming circumstance after decades of slow development and lowered costs.

The Centre for Economic Policy Research examined at the end of in 2015 that Euro location economic performance has actually been 'subdued' since around 2018, illustrating 'diverse obstacles of energy dependence, producing vulnerabilities, and moving worldwide trade characteristics'.

There remain extensive inconsistencies between European economies; German deindustrialisation has struck companies hard and forced redundancies, while Spain has grown in line with its tourism-focused economy.

This stays vulnerable, nevertheless, with citizens increasingly upset by the viewed pandering to foreign visitors as they are evaluated of economical lodging and trapped in low paying seasonal tasks.

The Henry Jackson Society is a diplomacy and national security think thank based in the United Kingdom.

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