Read this article by AC Grayling.
Do not trust the UK.
The Brexit debacle has exposed the UK finally and fully as a country “governed” by an outdated, cabal-led, tribalist political order. And what they “govern” is a society too many of whose members have been made ignorant, inward-looking, ignorant of history, ignorant of the truth about the benefit of the UK’s EU membership, and—alas!—in some cases xenophobic or even racist.