"Richest" means nothing in 2025, given the UK has a great track record of not understanding what they have and selling off their prized companies and assets overseas. This decline has only accelerated since then, beyond poverty.

It's gotten to the point where this Labour government is considering an IMF loan given the dire state of the countries finances.

I predict that the UK will become a third world country by the end of 2038 if they don't reverse this urgently.

The advancement of AI, the UK is again behind and "AGI" or "ASI" will make their decline 1000x even worse before at least 2030.