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Britain is on course to becoming a '2nd tier' European country like Spain or Italy due to economic decline and a weak military that undermines its effectiveness to allies, a professional has actually warned.

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

The stark assessment weighed that succeeding federal government failures in policy and attracting financial investment had actually triggered Britain to lose 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 newest report, Strategic Prosperity: The Case for Economic Growth as a National Security Priority.

The report assesses that Britain is now on track to fall behind Poland in terms of per capita income by 2030, which the central European nation's military will soon exceed the U.K.'s along lines of both manpower and devices on the current trajectory.

'The issue is that once we are downgraded to a 2nd tier middle power, it's going to be practically impossible to return. Nations do not come back from this,' Dr Ibrahim informed MailOnline today.

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

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

A British soldier refills 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 throughout a live fire variety on Rovajärvi Training Area, throughout Exercise Dynamic Front, Finland

Dr Ibrahim invited the government's decision to increase defence costs to 2.5% of GDP from April 2027, but alerted much deeper, systemic issues threaten to irreversibly knock the U.K. from its position as a globally prominent power.

With a weakening industrial base, Britain's effectiveness to its allies is now 'falling back even second-tier European powers', he warned.

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'Not just is the U.K. forecasted to have a lower GDP per capita than Poland by 2030, however likewise a smaller sized army and one that is unable to sustain release at scale.'

This is of specific concern at a time of heightened geopolitical stress, with Britain pegged to be among the leading forces in Europe's rapid 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 a massive oversight on the part of subsequent federal governments, not just Starmer's issue, of working to invest in our military and essentially contracting out security to the United States and NATO,' he told MailOnline.

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

Slowed defence costs and patterns of low efficiency are absolutely nothing new. But Britain is now likewise 'failing to change' to the Trump administration's jolt to the rules-based international order, said Dr Ibrahim.

The previous consultant to the 2021 Integrated Defence and Security Review noted in the report that in spite of the 'weakening' of the institutions once 'protected' by the U.S., Britain is responding by harming 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 strategic 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 examination.

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

Dr Jack Watling of the Royal United Services Institute defence and security think thank alerted at the time that 'the move demonstrates fretting tactical ineptitude in a world that the U.K. federal government refers to as being characterised by terrific power competition'.

Require the U.K. to provide reparations for its historical function in the servant trade were revived also in October in 2015, though Sir Keir Starmer said ahead of a meeting of Commonwealth nations that reparations would not be on the program.

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

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk speak during a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, January 17, 2025

Dr Ibhramin examined that the U.K. seems to be acting against its own security interests in part due to a narrow understanding of threat.

'We understand soldiers and rockets but fail to fully develop of the danger that having no option to China's supply chains may have on our ability to respond to military aggression.'

He recommended a new security design to 'enhance the U.K.'s strategic dynamism' based upon a rethink of migratory policy and hazard assessment, access to rare earth minerals in a market dominated by China, and the prioritisation of energy security and independence via financial investment in North Sea gas and a long-overdue rethink on nuclear energy.

'Without immediate policy changes to reignite growth, Britain will end up being a diminished power, reliant on stronger allies and vulnerable to foreign coercion,' the Foreign Policy writer stated.

'As international economic competition intensifies, the U.K. should choose whether to accept a strong growth program or resign itself to permanent decline.'

Britain's dedication to the idea of Net Zero may be laudable, however the pursuit will inhibit development and odd tactical goals, he warned.

'I am not saying that the environment is not crucial. But we just can not afford to do this.

'We are a country that has stopped working to invest in our economic, in our energy facilities. And we have significant resources at our disposal.'

Nuclear power, consisting of making use of small modular reactors, could be a benefit for the British economy and energy independence.

'But we've stopped working to commercialise them and obviously that's going to take a significant amount of time.'

Britain did introduce a brand-new financing model for nuclear power stations in 2022, which lobbyists including Labour politicians had firmly insisted was essential to finding the money for pricey plant-building tasks.

While Innovate UK, Britain's development agency, has actually been declared for its grants for little energy-producing companies in your home, entrepreneurs have actually warned a broader culture of 'threat hostility' in the U.K. stifles investment.

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

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

Britain has actually regularly stopped working to acknowledge the looming 'authoritarian hazard', enabling the pattern of managed decline.

But the revival of autocracies on the world stage dangers further weakening the rules-based worldwide order from which Britain 'benefits immensely' as a globalised economy.

'The danger to this order ... has actually developed partially because of the lack of a robust will to safeguard it, owing in part to ponder foreign attempts to overturn the recognition of the real lurking hazard they posture.'

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

But Dr Ibrahim alerted that this is not enough. He prompted a top-down reform of 'essentially our entire state' to bring the ossified state back to life and sustain it.

'Reforming the well-being state, reforming the NHS, reforming pensions - these are basically bodies that take up immense quantities of funds and they'll just keep growing considerably,' he informed MailOnline.

'You could double the NHS budget plan and it will actually not make much of a dent. So all of this will need fundamental reform and will take a lot of courage from whomever is in power because it will make them out of favor.'

The report lays out recommendations in extreme tax reform, pro-growth migration policies, and a restored concentrate on securing Britain's function as a leader in high-tech industries, energy security, and global trade.

Vladimir Putin talks with the guv of Arkhangelsk area Alexander Tsybulsky during their conference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 11, 2025

File photo. Britain's financial stagnancy might see it quickly become a 'second tier' partner

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

Britain is not alone in falling behind. The Trump administration's persistence that Europe pay for its own defence has actually cast fresh light on the Old Continent's alarming situation after decades of sluggish growth and minimized costs.

The Centre for Economic Policy Research evaluated at the end of in 2015 that Euro area economic performance has actually been 'controlled' since around 2018, highlighting 'complex obstacles of energy dependence, manufacturing vulnerabilities, and shifting international trade characteristics'.

There stay profound discrepancies in between European economies; German deindustrialisation has actually hit companies hard and forced redundancies, while Spain has actually grown in line with its tourism-focused economy.

This remains fragile, however, with citizens significantly upset by the viewed pandering to foreign visitors as they are priced out of cost effective accommodation and trapped in low paying seasonal jobs.

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

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