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And Labour peer Baroness Hodge, a former minister, told the BBC's Politics Live programme that Streeting should take account of what the cabinet secretary had asked of ministers and "hold fire a little bit".

Independent crossbench peer Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson was concerned by the lack of women's football as a consideration in the bill.

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".

Fellow Conservative peer and former cabinet minister Lord Forsyth of Drumlean accused Labour of "a disgraceful piece of political gerrymandering" aimed at "weakening the scrutiny" of the government.

Conservative peer Lord True was among those to criticise the government's plans.