The Nationality and Borders Bill which has divided opinion in the UK is currently making its way through Parliament with the support of Berkshire’s Conservative MPs.

Six of Berkshire’s eight MPs are Conservatives, and most of them are supporting their Government’s Nationality and Borders Bill.

The bill has proven divisive because of some of the measures contained in it, which include making it easier to strip someone of their citizenship.

Called ‘deprivation of citizenship’ the Government has stated that the measure would be reserved for those who pose a threat to the UK or are involved in activity which involves ‘very high harm’, examples of which include terrorists and their associates, terrorist sympathisers, war criminals, and those involved in serious organised crime.

A high profile example is Shamima Begum a British citizen who has been stripped of her citizenship and denied entry to the UK after joining terror group ISIS in 2015.

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This Wednesday (April 20), MPs have been considering a number of proposed amendments to the bill made by the House of Lords.

Some of the amendments have been adopted, which include providing a pathway for citizenship for people who live on the Chagos islands, situated in the Indian Ocean, restriction to age assessments for asylum seekers, ensuring potential victims of modern slavery are identified as early as possible, and clarifying the powers of immigration officers at sea.

However, a series of other provisions in the bill proved divisive.

Lord Coaker, the Labour attempted to amend the bill to clarify that the new offence of arriving in the UK without official permission only applies to those doing so in breach of a deportation order.

Although lords voted 162 to 132 to implement the amendment (23b), it was defeated by 309 to 227 by MPs.

Matt Rodda, Labour MP for Reading East, voted against the amendment’s removal.

Meanwhile, Conservative MPs Sir John Redwood (Wokingham), James Sunderland (Bracknell), Laura Farris (Newbury) and Adam Afriyie (Windsor) voted for it to be removed.

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No vote was recorded for Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, the Labour MP for Slough, Theresa May, the Conservative MP for Maidenhead, and Alok Sharma, the Conservative MP for Reading West.

Another amendment (53B) of clause 28, attempted to change the bill's wording.

However, a counter motion by Home Secretary Priti Patel, declaring that the House of Commons support removing asylum seekers to a safe third country while their claim for asylum is pending, was agreed  by 303 votes to 234.

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Mr Rodda and Mr Dhesi voted against the amendment, with Conservative MPs Sir John, Mr Sunderland, Mrs Farris and Mr Afriyie voted for Priti Patel’s motion to get the amendment removed.

Again, no vote was recorded for Mr Sharma and Mrs May.

Ultimately, the Conservatives were able to remove a total of 16 amendments from the Lords that they objected to.