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The home office is immigrant bullying, hostile environment, structurally racist and has been been for well over a decade.
Many leave campaigns were also xenophobic. And Boris and may can fuck off with their shitty remarks and removing of rights for EU immigrants like me and the Brits abroad.
That doesn't mean the UK does not have many successes when it comes to immigrants and living together as a society.
There's this tension in that sense between how people are as a society and his the government voted in via the Tories the past decade behaves.
Identity is always vague, ask people what Dutch identity is and you probably get many different answers as well.
Northern Ireland had to adopt a multi identity model (which ignores the "others") with the good Friday agreement but within unionists and nationalists you will also see disagreement on what Irishness / Britishness means once you get past the "who do you want to rule" NI question.
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This thread seems to be very negative re Britain's response to immigration. I would argue that Britain seems to absorb immigrants fairly well. The last thousand years have seen various strands of immigration from the Normans onwards where Britain has essentially become a nation of immigrants. To trot out an old chestnut, is the lack of an English identity because there is no one idea of Englishness? In Scotland we have a post victorian kilt clad sense of identity which may be false but seems to be something that people buy into.