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Tory peer Lord Crickhowell, the former Welsh Secretary Nicholas Edwards, called for major changes to the bill but said he did not support Labour's amendment seeking to refer the bill to a specially formed select committee in advance of its normal committee stage.
Conservative MP Nicholas Soames said that he backed the scrapping of the primogeniture rule but warned that the bill would "tinker away" with some of Britain's fundamental constitutional foundations.