Idris Elba joins PM to launch new anti-knife crime coalition
Idris Elba joins Sir Keir Starmer as he launches the coalition which aims to stop young people from being dragged into violent gangs. The Hollywood star told the knife crime meeting at No 10: “Talk is good, but action is important.” He said it was important there was a coalition of interests involved in the summit. 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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00:00The reason we're meeting now, eight, going on nine weeks after the election is because
00:20before the election I made commitments to people around this table and others in relation
00:28to our determination to deal with knife crime.
00:31You know, talk is good, but action is more important.
00:35One of the things that the Prime Minister and I spoke about during this run up to here
00:41was how do we make the action points, what does that look like?
00:46And it felt that we needed the coalition, we needed joined up thinking, we needed so
00:52many different perspectives, parents' perspectives, youth workers' perspectives,
00:59charity organisations, governance, policing.
01:02We need all of these perspectives to sit around the table and think about this.
01:07We aren't going to end knife crime.
01:10We can't.
01:11That's not realistic, but we can tackle the attributes towards it.