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Britain is on course to ending up being a 'second tier' European nation like Spain or Italy due to financial decline and a weak military that weakens its effectiveness to allies, a professional has actually cautioned.

Research professor Dr Azeem Ibrahim OBE concluded in a damning brand-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 existing development rates.

The plain assessment weighed that successive government failures in policy and drawing in investment had caused Britain to miss out on out on the 'industries of the future' courted by developed 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 newest report, Strategic Prosperity: The Case for Economic Growth as a National Security Priority.

The report examines that Britain is now on track to fall back Poland in terms of per capita income by 2030, which the main European nation's military will quickly go beyond the U.K.'s along lines of both workforce and devices on the current trajectory.

'The concern is that when we are downgraded to a 2nd tier middle power, it's going to be practically 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 strong leaders who have the ability to make the challenging decisions 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 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 government's decision to increase defence costs to 2.5% of GDP from April 2027, but warned much deeper, systemic problems threaten to irreversibly knock 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 back even second-tier European powers', he warned.

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

This is of particular concern at a time of heightened geopolitical tension, with Britain pegged to be among the leading forces in Europe's fast rearmament project.

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

'This is a huge oversight on the part of subsequent governments, not just Starmer's problem, of failing to buy our military and essentially outsourcing security to the United States and NATO,' he told MailOnline.

'With the U.S. getting tiredness of supplying the security umbrella to Europe, Europe now needs to base 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 nations are.'

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

The former 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 responding by harming the last vestiges of its military may and financial power.

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

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 fretting tactical ineptitude in a world that the U.K. federal government refers to as being characterised by fantastic power competition'.

Calls for the U.K. to provide reparations for its historic role in the slave trade were revived likewise in October last year, though Sir Keir Starmer stated ahead of a conference of Commonwealth countries that reparations would not be on the agenda.

A Challenger 2 main 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 throughout a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, January 17, 2025

Dr Ibhramin examined that the U.K. appears to be acting versus its own security interests in part due to a narrow understanding of danger.

'We understand soldiers and rockets but fail to totally envisage the threat that having no option to China's supply chains may have on our capability to respond to military aggression.'

He recommended a brand-new security design to 'boost the U.K.'s tactical dynamism' based on a rethink of migratory policy and danger evaluation, 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 end up being a lessened power, reliant on stronger allies and vulnerable to foreign coercion,' the Foreign Policy columnist said.

'As global financial competition intensifies, the U.K. needs to decide whether to embrace a bold growth program or resign itself to permanent decrease.'

Britain's dedication to the concept of Net Zero may be admirable, however the pursuit will prevent development and odd tactical objectives, he alerted.

'I am not stating that the environment is not important. But we simply can not pay for 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 usage of small modular reactors, might be an advantage for the British economy and energy self-reliance.

'But we've failed to commercialise them and clearly that's going to take a substantial quantity of time.'

Britain did present a new financing model for nuclear power stations in 2022, which lobbyists consisting of Labour political leaders had firmly insisted was crucial to discovering the money for costly plant-building .

While Innovate UK, Britain's development agency, has been heralded for its grants for small energy-producing business in your home, entrepreneurs have cautioned a wider culture of 'danger hostility' in the U.K. stifles financial investment.

In 2022, earnings for the poorest 14 million individuals 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 regularly stopped working to acknowledge the looming 'authoritarian threat', permitting the pattern of managed decline.

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

'The hazard to this order ... has established partly because of the lack of a robust will to safeguard it, owing in part to ponder foreign attempts to subvert the recognition of the real prowling hazard they present.'

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 as much as the seriousness of investing in defence.

But Dr Ibrahim alerted that this is insufficient. He prompted 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 tremendous amounts of funds and they'll simply keep growing significantly,' he told MailOnline.

'You could double the NHS spending plan and it will actually not make much of a damage. So all of this will need essential reform and will take a great deal of courage from whomever is in power because it will make them undesirable.'

The report details suggestions in radical tax reform, pro-growth immigration policies, and a renewed concentrate on protecting Britain's role as a leader in state-of-the-art industries, energy security, and international trade.

Vladimir Putin speaks to the guv of Arkhangelsk area Alexander Tsybulsky throughout their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 11, 2025

File photo. Britain's economic stagnancy could see it quickly become a 'second tier' partner

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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 alarming circumstance after years of sluggish growth and reduced costs.

The Centre for Economic Policy Research assessed at the end of in 2015 that Euro area economic efficiency has been 'suppressed' given that around 2018, illustrating 'multifaceted obstacles of energy reliance, manufacturing vulnerabilities, and moving international trade characteristics'.

There stay extensive discrepancies in between European economies; German deindustrialisation has struck organizations difficult and forced redundancies, while Spain has grown in line with its tourism-focused economy.

This stays delicate, however, with locals progressively agitated by the viewed pandering to foreign visitors as they are evaluated of budget friendly lodging and trapped in low paying seasonal jobs.

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

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