aspiration

"Aspects of this legislation risks suffocating the very thing that makes English football so unique, the aspiration that allows clubs to rise and succeed in our pyramid system. The ambition that means fans can dream," she said.

But Conservative peer Brady said planned "extreme redistribution" would "replace our brilliant but brutal meritocracy with the likelihood of a closed shop where survival not aspiration becomes a ceiling".

"It brings our aspiration of a new home in the region closer and hopefully demonstrates our determination to recover Wasps sustainably."

It will be the opposite of the department’s proud aspiration to do “justice without fear or favor.”

However, when asked directly whether she would reverse the VAT hike on private schools, Badenoch was definite, saying "yes, yes, I would... because it’s a tax on aspiration, but it won’t raise any money" and was therefore "against our principles".