STRUGGLING students are turning to food banks and have allegedly been threatened with interest on their rent by the University of London (UoL) management, rent strikers warned today.

Hundreds of students in UoL intercollegiate halls are officially on rent strike, withholding more than £350,000 from the institution, in protest against being used as “cash cows” during the pandemic.

Strikers claim that they have been bombarded with aggressive emails threatening vulnerable students with interest on their rent, having to pay for a full year upfront, as well as “serious and potentially long-term consequences” to creditworthiness.