The actor and musician, 52, will attend what is set to be the first annual knife crime summit with the Prime Minister and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper on Monday morning.
Idris Elba will join the prime minister to launch a new anti-knife crime coalition in Downing Street on Monday. The actor and musician, 52, will attend what is set to be the first annual knife crime summit with Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper on Monday morning. As an anti-knife crime campaigner, he will help bring together community groups and victims' families who have first-hand experience that can be used to change policy.
When the Luther star was a teenager, he received a £1,500 grant from what was then the Prince's Trust to attend the National Youth Music Theatre. In January, he launched his own initiative, Don't Stop Your Future, when he called for an immediate ban on zombie knives to speed up the previous government's plans for one later this year.
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