Contrary to the views of John L Hyde-Smith (Letters, August 15), it is easy to say how the lives of British people would be improved by having an elected head of state.
Anybody could become head of state. It is nonsense to suggest that such a person needs to be a politician. The blight of unelected privilege conferred by birth would be removed.
The heir to the throne would not exist which would be a dramatic turn for the better.
We would no longer need to be ashamed of a system which gives us no choice. There is much to be admired in the Irish presidential system.
Roger Boniface, Upper Shoreham Road, Shoreham
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