TEACHERS are expected to act as “front-line storm troopers” under government anti-terror measures, education union NUT heard yesterday.

A motion unanimously passed at the NUT conference said that the Blair-era Prevent strategy, stepped up under the Con-Dems in a bid to tackle the rise of al-Qaida and the Islamic State, was “closing down space for discussion” in schools.

South London teacher Jan Neilsen said that schools in her borough had been ranked “tier one” under Prevent because of the large numbers of Muslim students.