The Guardian view on disability benefits: Pip must not become another route for cuts | Editorial

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Stronger European welfare states expose a Tory myth. Benefits can enable independence, work and growthSir Stephen Timms, Labour’s minister for social security and disability, is widely acknowledged to be a parliamentary expert on welfare. He has seen the system from almost every angle: as a pensions and Treasury minister under New Labour, a shadow welfare spokesperson, a select committee chair, an…