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Britain is on course to ending up being a 'second tier' European country like Spain or Italy due to financial decrease and a weak military that undermines its effectiveness to allies, a specialist 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 could see it lose its standing as a top-tier middle power at existing growth rates.

The plain assessment weighed that succeeding federal government failures in regulation and bring in financial investment had caused Britain to miss out on out on the 'industries of the future' courted by established 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 behind Poland in regards to per capita earnings by 2030, which the central European nation's armed force will quickly surpass the U.K.'s along lines of both manpower and equipment on the current trajectory.

'The concern is that when we are downgraded to a second tier middle power, it's going to be practically impossible to get back. Nations don't return from this,' Dr Ibrahim informed MailOnline today.

'This is going to be sped up decline unless we nip this in the bud and have vibrant leaders who have the ability to make the challenging decisions right now.'

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 utilizes a radio to speak with Archer teams from 19th Regiment Royal Artillery during a live fire range on Rovajärvi Training Area, during Exercise Dynamic Front, Finland

Dr Ibrahim invited the government's choice to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP from April 2027, however cautioned much deeper, systemic issues threaten to irreversibly knock the U.K. from its position as an internationally prominent power.

With a weakening commercial base, Britain's usefulness to its allies is now 'falling back 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 particular issue at a time of increased geopolitical stress, with Britain pegged to be among the leading forces in Europe's quick rearmament project.

'There are 230 brigades in Ukraine right now, 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 failing to purchase our military and basically contracting out security to the United States and NATO,' he informed MailOnline.

'With the U.S. getting tiredness of offering 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 really lead European defence. But none of the European nations are.'

Slowed defence costs and patterns of low performance are absolutely nothing brand-new. But Britain is now likewise 'failing to change' to the Trump administration's shock to the rules-based worldwide 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 once 'protected' by the U.S., Britain is reacting by harming the last vestiges of its military might and economic power.

The U.K., he stated, 'appears to be making significantly costly 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 actually been the source of much examination.

Negotiations between the U.K. and Mauritius were started by the Tories in 2022, but a contract was announced by the Labour government last October.

Dr Jack Watling of the Royal United Services Institute defence and security think thank cautioned at the time that 'the move shows stressing strategic ineptitude in a world that the U.K. government describes as being characterised by great power competitors'.

Require the U.K. to supply reparations for its historical function in the servant trade were rekindled 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.

An Opposition 2 main battle tank of the British forces during 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 evaluated that the U.K. seems to be acting versus its own security interests in part due to a narrow understanding of threat.

'We understand soldiers and missiles but stop working to fully envisage the danger that having no option to China's supply chains might have on our capability to react to .'

He recommended a brand-new security model to 'boost the U.K.'s tactical dynamism' based upon a rethink of migratory policy and threat assessment, access to unusual earth minerals in a market controlled 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 changes to reignite growth, Britain will end up being a reduced power, reliant on more powerful allies and vulnerable to foreign coercion,' the Foreign Policy columnist said.

'As global financial competition intensifies, the U.K. must decide whether to welcome a bold growth program or resign itself to irreversible decline.'

Britain's commitment to the idea of Net Zero may be admirable, but the pursuit will inhibit development and unknown strategic objectives, he warned.

'I am not saying that the environment is trivial. But we just can not pay for to do this.

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

Nuclear power, consisting of making use of little modular reactors, might be an advantage 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 amount of time.'

Britain did introduce a new financing model for nuclear power stations in 2022, which lobbyists consisting of Labour politicians had insisted was crucial to discovering the cash for costly plant-building tasks.

While Innovate UK, Britain's development agency, has been heralded for its grants for small energy-producing companies in the house, business owners have warned a larger culture of 'risk hostility' in the U.K. stifles financial investment.

In 2022, incomes 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 failed to acknowledge the looming 'authoritarian danger', enabling the pattern of handled decline.

But the renewal of autocracies on the world phase threats even more weakening the rules-based global order from which Britain 'benefits tremendously' as a globalised economy.

'The hazard to this order ... has actually developed partly since of the lack of a robust will to safeguard it, owing in part to ponder foreign efforts to subvert the recognition of the real hiding danger they posture.'

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 as much as the seriousness of purchasing defence.

But Dr Ibrahim cautioned that this is inadequate. 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 basically bodies that take up enormous amounts of funds and they'll just keep growing considerably,' he told MailOnline.

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

The report describes recommendations in extreme tax reform, pro-growth immigration policies, and a renewed concentrate on securing Britain's role as a leader in modern markets, energy security, and global trade.

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

File photo. Britain's financial stagnation could see it quickly become 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 behind. The Trump administration's persistence that Europe pay for its own defence has cast fresh light on the Old Continent's dire situation after years of slow development and decreased costs.

The Centre for Economic Policy Research assessed at the end of last year that Euro area financial performance has been 'controlled' because around 2018, illustrating 'diverse difficulties of energy dependency, producing vulnerabilities, and shifting international trade characteristics'.

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

This remains fragile, however, with residents progressively agitated by the perceived pandering to foreign visitors as they are evaluated of economical accommodation and trapped in low paying seasonal jobs.

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

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