The new National Union of Students (NUS) president is a self-confessed former drug dealer who did not go to university.

Shakira Martin, 28, who once claimed to be more radical than the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, was elected as NUS president at their annual conference in Brighton on Wednesday.

She unseated Malia Bouattia, whose term as president was marred by allegations of anti-Semitism after she called her first university a "Zionist outpost" and criticised “mainstream Zionist-led media outlets”.