Ten years ago, last month, Britain voted to exit the EU. Keir Starmer became the sixth prime minister to leave Downing Street since then. The legacy of Brexit should concern CEE countries, too. It was not the product of inexorable structural forces, nor simply a democratic upsurge of popular Euroscepticism. The great misconception about Brexit, shared by both its most fervent champions and its most adamant critics, was the expectation of immediate, dramatic consequences.