Keir Starmer vows to make tackling knife crime ‘moral mission’

Pastor Lorraine Jones (left), who lost her son, Dwayne Simpson, to knife crime, met Idris Elba and Keir Starmer, and other victims’ families. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Keir Starmer has vowed to make tackling knife crime a “moral mission” at an emotional meeting with victims’ families and the actor Idris Elba.

The Labour leader said he would take the “strongest action in a generation” if elected and told campaigners to hold him to account on his progress within six months.