The MP also repeated doubts about the validity of evidence provided by expert witness Dr Dewi Evans.

Ms Bird said she was called "an Illiberal Terf", suspended from the Lib Dems and banned from standing as an MP for a decade.

The Liberal Democrats have been ordered to pay £14,000 to a former parliamentary candidate who says she was driven out of the party and barred from standing as an MP over her gender-critical views.

The Labour MP said: "I would argue that this proposition is somewhat too liberal and lenient and doesn't go far enough to address the issues."

The MP for Taunton and Wellington, who is also a social housing landlord, added: "Simply evicting tenants onto the streets won't reduce antisocial behaviour, it will move the antisocial behaviour from the house to the street where all the evidence suggest it will only get worse."