She is known for enraging readers with her provocative opinions, recently likening refugees to cockroaches and declaring their boats should be ‘sent back’ in a UKip conference.
But students at London’s Brunel university decided they weren’t giving the mother-of-three the chance to taunt them with her views.
Monday saw the celebration of University’s 50th anniversary, during which Hopkins joined the panel to debate whether the Welfare State has a place in 2015.
Unfortunately her speech was short-lived, and in a united show of protest, around 50 students walked out as soon as the columnist started her talk.
Joe Nicell, Brunel SU's communications manager, told The Independent the protest had been planned for some time, adding:
"It was mainly that we didn't feel that she fitted the debate and she wasn’t the right person to be speaking”.
And President of Brunel’s student union, Ali Milani, condemned Hopkins as the “physical manifestation of online trolls” in an online piece, writing:
“The inclusion of Ms Hopkins has been met with widespread outcry from the student body and the Students’ Union.
“It is important to note that the conversation at no point has been about banning Ms Hopkins from speaking on campus, or denying her right to speak.
"It is instead about saying it is distasteful and incongruous for our University, as part of a 50th celebration event, to provide a platform to someone who adds nothing to the intellectual or academic discourse; and an individual who publicly utters such overtly bigoted views.”
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