London commuters faced travel misery this morning as workers on the Underground train system began a 24-hour strike over staffing cuts. Following strikes in September, October and earlier this month, thousands of staff began to walk out since Sunday to protest the plans to axe 800 ticket office jobs. However, the services would not return to normal until tomorrow. The planned job cuts come amid an austerity drive in Britain, where the coalition government announced average spending cuts of 19 per cent across departments in last month.