PIP fiasco should have been avoided

‘In exceptional circumstances the Lords should not flinch from voting against regulations,’ writes Celia Thomas.The personal independence payment (PIP) regulations which the high court has quashed, thus allowing claimants with overwhelming psychological distress to potentially receive enhanced mobility payments (Report, 30 January), could have been stopped at a much earlier point in the House of Lords.In exceptional circumstances the Lords should not flinch from voting against regula