London’s entire underground tube system – apart from the Elizabeth Line – is being paralysed for almost a week by a rolling series of strikes called by the RMT union to which the Tube drivers belong. The Tube is not due to return to ‘normal’ until 8 a.m. on Friday. The disruption is the first all-out strike on the Underground since March 2023.

There is a solution to the stress and strain that Tube drivers suffer which would remove the need for such massively disruptive stoppages permanently: the driverless train

The union has called the strikes despite only 57 per cent of its 10,400 London members having bothered to vote in a postal ballot for strike action. Tube train drivers take home an average annual salary of between £65,000 and £75,000, but RMT say that the real value of their pay

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