A three-year-old child from London is one of hundreds of young people in the capital who have been tipped as potential future radicals and extremists.

Local council accused of racism after quizzing young children on race and religion with survey critics claim is clearly aimed at Muslims.

A pupil at a Hampstead primary school has become one of the youngest children to be referred to a counter-terrorism agency after being deemed at risk of Islamic ‘radicalisation’.

Schoolchildren in the UK who express support for Palestine face being questioned by police and referred to a counter-radicalisation programme for youngsters deemed at risk of being drawn into terrorism under new laws requiring teachers to monitor students for extremism.

The Government’s flagship counter-radicalisation strategy leads Muslims who grow beards to be labelled as terrorists and could be used to clamp down on anti-austerity and environmental campaigners, hundreds of academics have claimed in an open letter to The Independent.

Victoria police are seeking powers to force those they identify as potential terrorists into deradicalisation programs, restrict who they associate with, and ban them from using the internet under a proposal before the state government.

Dozens of seasoned Muslim activists – representing a wide political and theological spectrum of the community – have signed an open letter denouncing London police commander Mak Chishty’s call for Muslim children to be monitored for signs of radicalisation.

‘Islamist propaganda’ is so potent it is influencing children as young as five and should be countered with intensified monitoring to detect the earliest signs of anti-western sentiment, Britain’s most senior Muslim police chief has warned.

The Prime Minister will say that the Queen’s Speech at the end of the month will now include a series of measures designed to confront “poisonous Islamist extremist ideology”.