A previous Lords amendent to the Fire Safety Bill on the same issue has already been overturned by MPs.
The latest 78-vote reverse means the legislation will have to return to the Commons for further consideration in another round of Parliamentary ping-pong.
The Bishop of St Albans, the Rt Rev Alan Smith, said leaseholders were innocent victims of the Grenfell Tower tragedy and urged peers to help end the “nightmare” facing them.
He said ordinary families had been “ripped apart” by the fire and leaseholders now faced “staggering costs” of up to £50,000 and possible bankruptcy to put things right.
“How can this be fair or just. It’s not the leaseholders who sold defective cladding or fitted it,” he said. “They purchased their properties in good faith believing them to be safe.”
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