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

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

The stark assessment weighed that succeeding government failures in guideline and bring in financial investment had actually triggered Britain to lose out on the 'markets 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 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 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 armed force will quickly go beyond the U.K.'s along lines of both and equipment on the current trajectory.

'The concern is that as soon as we are reduced to a second tier middle power, it's going to be almost difficult to get back. Nations do not come back from this,' Dr Ibrahim informed MailOnline today.

'This is going to be accelerated decrease unless we nip this in the bud and have vibrant leaders who have the ability to make the hard choices today.'

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

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

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'Not only 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 unable to sustain implementation at scale.'

This is of particular issue at a time of increased geopolitical tension, with Britain pegged to be among the leading forces in Europe's rapid rearmament job.

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

'This is a massive oversight on the part of subsequent governments, not simply Starmer's problem, of stopping working to buy our military and essentially 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 really lead European defence. But none of the European countries are.'

Slowed defence costs and patterns of low productivity are absolutely nothing new. But Britain is now also 'failing to adjust' to the Trump administration's jolt to the rules-based worldwide order, stated 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 organizations once 'secured' by the U.S., Britain is responding by hurting the last vestiges of its military might and economic power.

The U.K., he said, 'appears to be making progressively 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 actually been the source of much examination.

Negotiations between the U.K. and Mauritius were started by the Tories in 2022, however an arrangement was announced by the Labour federal 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 stressing tactical ineptitude in a world that the U.K. government refers to as being characterised by fantastic power competition'.

Require the U.K. to offer reparations for its historical role in the slave trade were rekindled likewise in October last year, though Sir Keir Starmer said ahead of a meeting of Commonwealth nations that reparations would not be on the program.

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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. seems to be acting versus its own security interests in part due to a narrow understanding of danger.

'We understand soldiers and missiles but fail to totally envisage the danger that having no alternative to China's supply chains might have on our ability to react to military aggression.'

He recommended a new security design to 'boost the U.K.'s strategic dynamism' based upon a rethink of migratory policy and risk assessment, access to unusual earth minerals in a market dominated by China, and the prioritisation of energy security and self-reliance through 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 diminished power, reliant on stronger allies and susceptible to foreign coercion,' the Foreign Policy columnist stated.

'As worldwide financial competitors heightens, the U.K. should decide whether to accept a bold growth agenda or resign itself to irreversible decline.'

Britain's dedication to the idea of Net Zero might be laudable, but the pursuit will prevent development and unknown tactical goals, he cautioned.

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

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

Nuclear power, including using little modular reactors, could 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 significant amount of time.'

Britain did present a new funding design for nuclear power stations in 2022, which lobbyists consisting of Labour politicians had firmly insisted was key to finding the money for pricey plant-building tasks.

While Innovate UK, Britain's innovation agency, has been heralded for its grants for small energy-producing business in your home, business owners have actually alerted a larger culture of 'risk aversion' in the U.K. stifles 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 image of The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) or Chagos Islands

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

But the revival of autocracies on the world phase dangers even more undermining the rules-based worldwide order from which Britain 'advantages immensely' as a globalised economy.

'The danger to this order ... has developed partially since of the lack of a robust will to defend it, owing in part to deliberate foreign attempts to subvert the acknowledgment of the real prowling risk they position.'

The Trump administration's alerting to NATO allies in Europe that they will need to do their own bidding has gone some way 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 '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 take up immense amounts of funds and they'll simply keep growing substantially,' he told MailOnline.

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

The report lays out suggestions in radical tax reform, pro-growth migration policies, and a restored concentrate on protecting Britain's role as a leader in state-of-the-art industries, energy security, and global trade.

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File photo. Britain's economic stagnancy might see it soon become a '2nd tier' partner

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Britain is not alone in falling back. The Trump administration's persistence that Europe spend for its own defence has actually cast fresh light on the Old Continent's alarming circumstance after decades of slow growth and lowered spending.

The Centre for Economic Policy Research examined at the end of in 2015 that Euro area financial efficiency has actually been 'suppressed' since around 2018, highlighting 'complex difficulties of energy dependency, making vulnerabilities, and shifting international trade characteristics'.

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

This stays delicate, nevertheless, with homeowners increasingly upset by the viewed pandering to foreign visitors as they are evaluated of budget-friendly lodging and caught in low paying seasonal jobs.

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

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