David Davis has, at times, an electrifying smile. It was well used, as we approached Brexit negotiations. Well, it took a failed election result to make him dampen his smug look and, instead, write a round robin piece about how strangely he has come to espouse European Union citizens living in the UK. Suddenly, his government has fallen in love with the very people he has terrorised this past year through uncertainty: the threat of deportation at the point of Brexit.

Look at what this dreadful government has done to the survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster: taken to a cheap hotel where, at breakfast time, they are asked what time they will be moving out. Some are being driven to live in one of dozens of other high-rise buildings. This government strives to destroy the humanity of poor people driven to insanity by fear and uncertainty, happily forcing other residents of defective tower blocks out by the thousands.

So expect nothing good from Davis’s reassurances. They are written in ink whose composition will become as invisible as the assurances made to the Grenfell residents.

The European Union is dealing with a duplicitous government that claws to power through an unholy alliance with the DUP, whose members are steeped in the blood of the innocent.

EU citizens need to ensure they can prove their status through things like regular banking receipts, paying council taxes and proving all utility bills have been properly paid over the past five years.

Finally, make sure the EU commandeers the legal process and does not allow UK magistrates’ courts to become the arbiters of citizenship.