From Dr Kirsty Hughes.

Sir, Andrew Moravcsik's persistence has to be admired ("Chastened leaders need some concrete policy successes", January 27). Irrespective of actual political developments in the European Union, he insists over the years that almost nothing the EU does has salience for the public, and so discussions of democracy and public disaffection, let alone constitutions, are irrelevant: the elites can carry on running the show behind closed doors.