STUDENT unions yesterday condemned the Conservative government’s demand that universities must comply with the Counter-Extremism Bill to halt “radicalisation.”

The backlash comes after Prime Minister David Cameron “named and shamed” universities accused of providing platforms to “hate speakers” at around 70 events last year, according to the Extremism Analysis Unit in Whitehall.

The University of London’s Queen Mary, King’s College and School of Oriental and African Studies, along with Kingston University, were said by Downing Street to have held most of the events.