US President Donald Trump is now taking them on and has withdrawn state funding from Harvard and other top American institutions in a campaign that we should ape in the UK.

Furious at the failure to dismantle the aggressively pro-Palestinian encampments that have become a feature of campuses across the country – and the endemic Left-wing bias of further education in his country – Trump has withheld some $11billion of state funding from at least seven top colleges. Some have accepted the criticism and withdrawn their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programmes, but Harvard University, threatened with losing $2billion in funding is fighting back by suing the White House for interfering in their academic independence.

Supporters of the liberal elitist regime are up in arms about the clash. In my opinion, Trump is simply stating a fact that we’ve known since the 1960s; left-wingers have dominated our finest academic institutions on both sides of the Atlantic and this ideological takeover ensures the majority of teachers and students are spouting the same socialist, globalist philosophy that has infested our politics for years.

The fact that the Conservative Party has failed to deliver a right-wing manifesto and the Labour Party is distanced from its working class roots is because most politicians are university educated in the same liberal views. They are spoon-fed it at Oxford, Cambridge and the rest of the UK’s leading universities.

Trump quite rightly slammed the entrenched bias by saying: “Perhaps Harvard should lose its tax exempt status and be taxed as a political entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological and terrorist inspired/supporting sickness?”

Former Harvard president Dr Claudine Gay invited ridicule (and ultimately lost her job) when she refused to condemn rampant anti-Semitism on campus by pro-Hamas protestors, insisting it depended “on the context”. Many wealthy donors promptly withdrew funds and Dr Gay eventually resigned following accusations of plagiarism.

If any British politicians had the courage to take on the academic establishment, they too would find institutions long captured by woke, leftist activists. In a study by the Adam Smith Institute, it was found that 80% of academics hold left-wing views. An earlier poll reported that 89% voted Remain and only 10% voted Leave in the Brexit referendum.

Considering that more than 50% of the general population is inclined to vote for right-wing parties, there is clearly an overrepresentation of left-wing views at our top universities. This is intimidating for colleagues who wish to pursue more right-leaning research and topics and puts out the message to students that a liberal, leftist viewpoint is more desirable, more normal, whereas in fact it is not. This also explains the intellectual group-think regarding climate change which also brings with it generous research funding.

It’s little surprising then that liberal views are overrepresented in the media, civil service and politics, which employs mostly graduates. No doubt this was the plan behind Tony Blair’s target for 50% of school leavers to go to university, ensuring his world view would predominate.

Academic censorship is widespread and Sussex University notoriously organised a seminar telling staff how to “deal with right-wing attitudes in the classroom”. University officials said at the time that the event was aimed at helping staff deal with extreme attitudes such as racism and homophobia. This is blatant brain-washing akin more to a communist country than a nation where free-speech should be championed. If our universities are taking taxpayers’ money, they should be more in tune with public sentiment and represent a much more diverse range of opinions.

Such entrenched left-wing prejudice will do little to encourage working class students, who often hold more Conservative views, to go to university. This is how the liberal elite get stronger and stronger and infiltrate every aspect of our society. The tendency for left-wing lawyers to use Human Rights laws to frustrate any control of illegal migration is just one example of how this education bias is leading to real consequences in the real world.

If this tendency continues within academia we will very much have an elite running our affairs that is not representative of the majority of views and that can only be anti-Democratic, leading to yet more discontent.

President Trump is right to tackle this problem head-on and demand that universities ditch woke ideology and embrace a more widespread and diverse range of intellectual thought. Education should be about encouraging civilised discourse, not reinforcing politically redundant prejudices. The future of Western civilisation depends on it.