Robert Corbyn-Smith has suspended his campaign for the CUSU presidency, just days after the election campaign began on Thursday morning.

The third-year History and Philosophy of Science student from Homerton, who is one of the serving officers at the Disabled Students' Campaign and who successfully campaigned for the creation of a full-time Disabled Students' Officer earlier this month, ran on a platform promising reforms of CUSU to make it more "representative", "effective" and "useful".

Drawing on his extensive experience at CUSU, including serving as Transport & Safety Officer on the now-defunct Welfare Part-Time Executive, Corbyn-Smith had promised to create a CUSU that "actually takes account of graduate needs and works with the Graduate Union, and that collaborates much more closely with the autonomous campaigns", according to an interview he gave to Varsity.

Among his other policies were "actively seek[ing] to make CUSU more inclusive of BME, LGBT+, Disabled and International Students" by "collaborating more closely with the Autonomous Campaigns", campaigning for increased CUSU funding from "alternative sources" by "exploring new partnerships with other organisations" and "establish[ing] a new participation fund" that "supports student activities, from funding coaches to demos to trips to Calais to provide aid to refugees".

Varsity has reached out to Corbyn-Smith for comment on his withdrawal from the race.