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King Charles calls for urgent action with major update
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The King calls for urgent action with major update on social media.
The monarch urged the government to help tackle youth violence and knife crime today as he met actor Idris Elba, the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and young people to discuss tackling violence and knife crime in the UK.Charles, 75, whose King’s Trust has been working with Elba’s own foundation to support young people, told the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Lisa Nandy, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, that he would be “watching and hoping for progress” on the issue at a special roundtable discussion at St James’s Palace