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Britain is on course to becoming a '2nd tier' European country like Spain or Italy due to economic decrease and a weak military that undermines its usefulness to allies, a professional has actually warned.

Research professor Dr Azeem Ibrahim OBE concluded in a damning 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 evaluation weighed that successive federal government failures in regulation and attracting investment had actually triggered Britain to miss out on out on the 'markets 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 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 terms of per capita earnings by 2030, and that the main European nation's armed force will soon go beyond the U.K.'s along lines of both workforce and devices on the present trajectory.

'The concern is that when we are downgraded to a 2nd tier middle power, it's going to be practically difficult to get back. Nations do not return from this,' Dr Ibrahim informed MailOnline today.

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

People pass boarded up stores 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 talk to 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 federal 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 worldwide influential 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 only is the U.K. anticipated 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 release at scale.'

This is of specific concern at a time of increased geopolitical stress, with Britain pegged to be amongst the leading forces in Europe's quick rearmament task.

'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 federal governments, not simply Starmer's issue, of stopping working to purchase 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 needs to stand on its own and the U.K. would have been in a premium position to in fact lead European defence. But none of the European nations are.'

Slowed defence spending and patterns of low performance are nothing new. But Britain is now likewise 'failing to change' to the Trump administration's jolt to the rules-based global 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 institutions once 'secured' by the U.S., Britain is responding by damaging the last vestiges of its military might and economic power.

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

Negotiations between the U.K. and Mauritius were begun by the Tories in 2022, however a contract was announced 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 move demonstrates fretting strategic ineptitude in a world that the U.K. federal government explains as being characterised by great power competitors'.

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

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

Dr Ibhramin assessed that the U.K. seems to be acting against its own security interests in part due to a narrow understanding of danger.

'We understand soldiers and missiles but stop working to fully envisage the danger that having no alternative to China's supply chains may have on our ability to react to military hostility.'

He recommended a brand-new security design to 'enhance the U.K.'s strategic dynamism' based upon a rethink of migratory policy and hazard evaluation, access to rare earth minerals in a market controlled by China, and the prioritisation of energy security and independence by means of financial investment in North Sea gas and a long-overdue rethink on atomic energy.

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

'As worldwide economic competition heightens, the U.K. needs to decide whether to embrace a vibrant development agenda or resign itself to irreparable decrease.'

Britain's commitment to the idea of Net Zero might be admirable, but the pursuit will prevent growth and obscure strategic objectives, he cautioned.

'I am not saying that the environment is not essential. But we just can not manage to do this.

'We are a nation that has failed to buy our economic, in our energy infrastructure. And we have substantial resources at our disposal.'

Nuclear power, consisting of making use of little modular reactors, could be an advantage for the British economy and energy self-reliance.

'But we have actually failed to commercialise them and clearly that's going to take a significant quantity of time.'

Britain did introduce a brand-new funding model for nuclear power stations in 2022, which lobbyists consisting of Labour politicians had actually insisted was key to discovering the money for expensive plant-building tasks.

While Innovate UK, Britain's development firm, has been heralded for its grants for little energy-producing business in the house, entrepreneurs have actually alerted a broader culture of 'threat aversion' in the U.K. stifles investment.

In 2022, incomes for the poorest 14 million people fell by 7.5%, per the ONS. Pictured: High Street, Waterlooville, Hants

Undated file picture of The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) or Chagos Islands

Britain has consistently failed to acknowledge the looming 'authoritarian risk', enabling the pattern of managed decrease.

But the renewal of autocracies on the world stage risks further undermining the rules-based worldwide order from which Britain 'advantages tremendously' as a globalised economy.

'The threat to this order ... has actually established partly because of the lack of a robust will to safeguard it, owing in part to ponder foreign efforts to overturn the acknowledgment of the true lurking risk they present.'

The Trump administration's cautioning to NATO allies in Europe that they will need to do their own bidding has gone some method towards waking Britain as much as the urgency of purchasing 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 use up immense amounts of funds and they'll simply keep growing considerably,' he told MailOnline.

'You might double the NHS spending plan and it will really not make much of a dent. So all of this will require basic reform and will take a great deal of nerve from whomever is in power since it will make them undesirable.'

The report details recommendations in extreme tax reform, pro-growth migration policies, and a restored concentrate on protecting Britain's role as a leader in high-tech markets, energy security, and global trade.

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

File photo. Britain's economic stagnation could see it quickly become a '2nd tier' partner

Boarded-up stores in Blackpool as more than 13,000 stores 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 scenario after decades of slow development and minimized costs.

The Centre for Economic Policy Research assessed at the end of in 2015 that Euro area financial performance has actually been 'controlled' given that around 2018, highlighting 'complex challenges of energy reliance, making vulnerabilities, and moving international trade dynamics'.

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

This stays fragile, nevertheless, with citizens significantly upset by the perceived pandering to foreign visitors as they are priced out of cost effective accommodation and trapped in low paying seasonal tasks.

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

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