The BBC film sees Elba meet prime minister Sir Keir Starmer, who said that his party would commit to halving knife crime if elected, and the King, where the pair discussed solutions to the problem with some of the young people most affected by youth violence.

Luther star speaks ahead of the release of BBC documentary in which actor talks to victims’ families, police officers and teenage offenders

“The actual coalition that we have put together, we have young people sitting at the table saying, ‘listen this is what’s actually going on’. “Young people that have set up their own organisations.

BBC One viewers have praised Idris Elba for his latest documentary, Idris Elba: Our Knife Crisis, as he attempts to find out why young people still feel the need to carry a knife