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Britain is on course to becoming a '2nd tier' European country like Spain or Italy due to financial decline and a weak armed force that weakens its usefulness to allies, a specialist has actually warned.

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

The stark evaluation weighed that succeeding federal government failures in policy and attracting investment had triggered Britain to lose out on the 'markets 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 two months,' he wrote in The Henry Jackson Society's latest report, Strategic Prosperity: The Case for Economic Growth as a National Security Priority.

The report evaluates that Britain is now on track to fall behind Poland in regards to per capita earnings by 2030, and that the central European nation's military will quickly surpass the U.K.'s along lines of both manpower and equipment on the present trajectory.

'The problem is that as soon as we are devalued to a second tier middle power, it's going to be practically impossible to return. Nations don't come back from this,' Dr Ibrahim informed MailOnline today.

'This is going to be sped up decrease unless we nip this in the bud and have vibrant leaders who are able to make the difficult decisions today.'

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

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

Staff Sergeant Rai utilizes a radio to speak to Archer crews 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 choice to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP from April 2027, however alerted much deeper, systemic concerns threaten to irreversibly knock the U.K. from its position as an internationally prominent power.

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

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

This is of specific issue at a time of increased geopolitical tension, with Britain pegged to be amongst the leading forces in Europe's rapid 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 just Starmer's problem, of stopping working to invest in our military and basically outsourcing 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 actually lead European defence. But none of the European nations are.'

Slowed defence costs and patterns of low efficiency are nothing new. But Britain is now likewise 'stopping working to adjust' to the Trump administration's jolt 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 institutions as soon as 'secured' by the U.S., Britain is reacting by hurting the last vestiges of its military might and financial power.

The U.K., he said, 'appears to be making increasingly 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 started by the Tories in 2022, but an arrangement was announced by the Labour federal government last October.

Dr Jack Watling of the Royal United Services Institute defence and security believe thank alerted at the time that 'the relocation shows stressing strategic ineptitude in a world that the U.K. federal government refers to as being characterised by terrific power competitors'.

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

A Challenger 2 main battle tank of the British forces during 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 throughout a press conference 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 comprehend soldiers and rockets however fail to completely conceive of the danger that having no option to China's supply chains may have on our ability to react to military aggressiveness.'

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

'Without instant policy changes to reignite growth, Britain will end up being a lessened power, reliant on more powerful allies and vulnerable to foreign browbeating,' the Diplomacy columnist stated.

'As global financial competition intensifies, the U.K. must choose whether to embrace a bold development program or resign itself to permanent decline.'

Britain's commitment to the idea of Net Zero might be laudable, however the pursuit will prevent growth and obscure tactical objectives, he alerted.

'I am not stating that the environment is not essential. But we simply can not pay for to do this.

'We are a nation that has failed to buy our economic, in our energy infrastructure. And we have significant 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've stopped working to commercialise them and certainly that's going to take a considerable quantity of time.'

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

While Innovate UK, Britain's development firm, has actually been declared for its grants for small energy-producing business at home, entrepreneurs have warned a broader culture of 'threat hostility' in the U.K. suppresses 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 photo 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 managed decrease.

But the resurgence of autocracies on the world stage risks even more weakening the rules-based global order from which Britain 'advantages immensely' as a globalised economy.

'The threat to this order ... has actually developed partially because of the lack of a robust will to defend it, owing in part to deliberate foreign efforts to subvert the recognition of the real hiding hazard they pose.'

The Trump administration's warning to NATO allies in Europe that they will have to do their own bidding has gone some way towards waking Britain up to the urgency of buying defence.

But Dr Ibrahim warned that this is inadequate. He prompted a top-down reform of 'essentially 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 take up tremendous quantities of funds and they'll just keep growing substantially,' he told MailOnline.

'You might double the NHS budget plan and it will truly not make much of a damage. So all of this will need basic reform and will take a lot of guts from whomever is in power due to the fact that it will make them unpopular.'

The report describes suggestions in radical tax reform, pro-growth immigration policies, and a renewed concentrate on protecting Britain's function as a leader in high-tech industries, energy security, and global trade.

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

File picture. Britain's economic stagnation could see it quickly 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 dire circumstance after decades of slow development and reduced costs.

The Centre for Economic Policy Research examined at the end of in 2015 that Euro area economic performance has actually been 'subdued' given that around 2018, showing 'multifaceted obstacles of energy dependence, manufacturing vulnerabilities, and moving international trade characteristics'.

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

This remains vulnerable, nevertheless, with homeowners progressively agitated by the perceived pandering to foreign visitors as they are priced out of economical accommodation and trapped in low paying seasonal tasks.

The Henry Jackson Society is a foreign policy and nationwide security believe thank based in the United Kingdom.

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