SIR – There has been much recent correspondence on assisted dying, with views for and against. As 2024 may well be an election year, surely it is the ideal opportunity to have this settled by a majority. A referendum on, at least, the basic principle of allowing assisted dying should be included as part of the voting process. Not to allow this would be, I believe, an affront to democracy. I call for MPs to introduce the question as soon as they return to the Commons.