I was at Brighton Station yesterday with Peter Pinkney, the National President of RMT, for the Action for Rail day of protest calling for fairer rail fares.

There was a hugely positive response from the commuters we spoke about the idea of bringing the railways back into public ownership, which could save the taxpayer more than £1bn a year.

People have clearly had enough of the privatised rail network letting them down - with endlessly increasing fares and few real signs of improvement in services or efficiency...