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Britain is on course to ending up being a '2nd tier' European country like Spain or Italy due to financial decrease and a weak armed force that weakens its usefulness to allies, an expert has alerted.

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

The plain evaluation weighed that successive government failures in regulation and drawing in financial investment had caused Britain to lose out on the 'industries of the future' courted by developed economies.

'Britain no longer has the commercial base to logistically sustain a war with a near-peer like Russia for more than 2 months,' he wrote 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 back Poland in regards to per capita earnings by 2030, which the main European nation's military will quickly exceed the U.K.'s along lines of both workforce and devices on the present trajectory.

'The problem is that once we are downgraded to a 2nd tier middle power, it's going to be practically impossible to get back. Nations do not come back from this,' Dr Ibrahim told 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 challenging 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 utilizes a radio to talk to Archer crews from 19th Regiment Royal Artillery throughout a live fire variety on Rovajärvi Training Area, throughout Exercise Dynamic Front, Finland

Dr Ibrahim welcomed the government's decision to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP from April 2027, however alerted much deeper, systemic concerns threaten to the U.K. from its position as a globally influential power.

With a weakening industrial base, Britain's usefulness to its allies is now 'falling behind even second-tier European powers', he cautioned.

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

This is of particular issue 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 country to mount a single heavy armoured brigade.'

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

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

Slowed defence spending and patterns of low efficiency are absolutely nothing brand-new. But Britain is now likewise 'stopping working to adjust' to the Trump administration's jolt to the rules-based worldwide order, said Dr Ibrahim.

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

The U.K., he said, 'seems to be making significantly expensive 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 scrutiny.

Negotiations between the U.K. and Mauritius were begun by the Tories in 2022, but an arrangement 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 relocation demonstrates stressing strategic ineptitude in a world that the U.K. government describes as being characterised by fantastic power competition'.

Calls for the U.K. to provide reparations for its historic function in the slave trade were revived also in October last year, though Sir Keir Starmer said ahead of a conference 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 workout in Kilingi-Nomme, Estonia, Wednesday, May 15, 2024

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

Dr Ibhramin evaluated that the U.K. seems to be acting versus its own security interests in part due to a narrow understanding of risk.

'We understand soldiers and rockets however fail to totally conceive of the threat that having no alternative to China's supply chains might have on our ability to react to military hostility.'

He suggested a new security design to 'enhance the U.K.'s strategic dynamism' based on a rethink of migratory policy and threat 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 instant policy modifications to reignite development, Britain will become a lessened power, reliant on more powerful allies and vulnerable to foreign coercion,' the Foreign Policy writer said.

'As worldwide financial competition magnifies, the U.K. should decide whether to embrace a strong growth agenda or resign itself to irreparable decrease.'

Britain's dedication to the concept of Net Zero might be admirable, but the pursuit will inhibit growth and obscure tactical goals, he cautioned.

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

'We are a country that has actually stopped working to buy our economic, in our energy infrastructure. And we have considerable resources at our disposal.'

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

'But we have actually stopped working to commercialise them and clearly that's going to take a substantial quantity of time.'

Britain did introduce a new financing model for nuclear power stations in 2022, which lobbyists including Labour politicians had insisted was key to discovering the cash for expensive plant-building projects.

While Innovate UK, Britain's development company, has been declared for its grants for little energy-producing companies in the house, entrepreneurs have cautioned a wider culture of 'risk hostility' in the U.K. suppresses financial investment.

In 2022, earnings for the poorest 14 million people 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 consistently stopped working to acknowledge the looming 'authoritarian risk', permitting the pattern of handled decrease.

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

'The threat to this order ... has actually established partially due to the fact that of the absence of a robust will to defend it, owing in part to ponder foreign efforts to subvert the acknowledgment of the true lurking risk they position.'

The Trump administration's warning to NATO allies in Europe that they will need to do their own bidding has actually gone some method towards waking Britain as much as the seriousness of buying defence.

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

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

'You could double the NHS budget and it will truly not make much of a dent. So all of this will need basic reform and will take a lot of courage from whomever is in power since it will make them undesirable.'

The report outlines suggestions in extreme tax reform, pro-growth migration policies, and a renewed focus on securing Britain's role as a leader in high-tech industries, energy security, and international trade.

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

File image. Britain's economic stagnancy could see it soon end up being a '2nd tier' partner

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

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

The Centre for Economic Policy Research evaluated at the end of in 2015 that Euro area financial performance has been 'controlled' given that around 2018, showing 'complex difficulties of energy reliance, manufacturing vulnerabilities, and shifting international trade dynamics'.

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

This stays vulnerable, however, with homeowners increasingly agitated by the perceived pandering to foreign visitors as they are evaluated of budget friendly accommodation and trapped in low paying seasonal jobs.

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

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