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But the vote in the House of Lords looks certain to be challenged by the Government in the Commons.

Voting was 177 to 159, a majority of 18, during the Greater London Authority Bill's report stage.

Mr Livingstone has twice been elected London mayor - in 2000 when he stood as an independent and 2004 when he was back with Labour. The next mayoral poll is due in May 2008.

Tory Baroness Hanham told the Lords: 'The office of mayor now in this country is the nearest thing we have to a dictator. There is very little that can stop the mayor doing what he wants to do.'

She said her remarks were not aimed at Mr Livingstone directly.

But Government minister Baroness Andrews said: 'If he is a dictator the best way to remove him is to remove him by a democratic process.'

Mr Livingstone reacted to the vote by saying it was a bid to overcome Tory difficulties in securing a highprofile candidate to take him on.

'It is up to Londoners, not parliamentarians, to decide who is mayor,' he said. 'This is further evidence that David Cameron has no confidence in his party's candidates for mayor.'