SIR - If Britain itself was under imminent threat, then of course the Prime Minster of the day, with the Cabinet, should have the authority to respond.

But on the issue of whether to carry out bombing raids in Syria, a country far away, this was not the case.

Like similar situations previously, the matter should have been allowed to be debated extensively and finally voted on by MPs in the House of Commons.

Instead, Theresa May chose to go ahead with the use of armed force at a weekend, so that it was completed before Parliament reassembled. She also ignored calls for an earlier, emergency recall of MPs, which has sometimes happened in the past.

Like her dubious arrangement with the DUP over propping up her minority government in power, whilst the matter of the Irish border under Brexit remains unclear, this was also wrong and not in the spirit of democracy.

David Hornsby, West View Avenue, Wrose