Idris Elba 'work begins now' to tackle knife crime
Sir Keir Starmer has promised action to tackle the online sale of deadly weapons as he hosted a summit with knife crime campaigners including Luther star Idris Elba and victims’ families. The Hollywood actor, who met Sir Keir during the election campaign to push for action on knife crime, said it was important there was a coalition of interests involved in the first summit, which is expected to become an annual event. Elba called the meeting a "positive step in the right direction". Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00It was a step in the right direction, these things take time, there's been a lot of talk,
00:05a lot of emotion around it, but the truth is that room was a coalition of thinkers that
00:10all have the same goal and it was a really positive step in the right direction. I mean,
00:16what can I say, the work only begins now, we've got to keep working.
00:19What's next is, you know, today was identifying some of the low-hanging fruit that can be
00:25actioned quickly, right, things around, you know, accessibility on knives,
00:31online sales and things like that. These things take time to actually get into law,
00:37but today was really about how do we get to them quicker and so our next step is to aggregate the
00:44thoughts that we've had today, we've got a point of contact and that person will be
00:50aggregating those action points and then those involved in those action points will be there
00:55to get them done. The Prime Minister, by the way, is super, super keen to just keep pushing
01:00and that's what we've seen, so it's been good.