‘I paid for a graduate to get the train for a job interview

Anyone who lives and works in London knows the pain of the morning Tube commute. Packed platforms. Boiling carriages. The cost of a 30-minute journey.

It feels like every time you tap your Oyster card at the Underground station or on the bus the price increases. And for those of us who live outside the M25, it’s even worse.

Some of us are lucky enough to live and work in this great city – but there are others struggling to get a foot in simply because the cost of back-and-forth travel is so high.

One campaigner, however, is aiming to change this.

When 27-year-old Ellie Hecht, founder of the law recruitment company InnLegal, was told by a young job applicant that they couldn’t afford the commute from Essex to London for an interview, Ellie put her hand in her own pocket to make sure the