Zombie blades will be banned in Britain under a fresh Government crackdown launched in the wake of Britain's bloody knife crime epidemic.

All knives will have to be collected from a shop rather than delivered to a home address and a person will have to show ID proving they are at least 18 to buy them.

The crackdown, announced today by new Home Secretary Sajid Javid, comes after months of bloody carnage on Britain's streets.

Some 74 people have been killed in London so far this year, and there are fears this deathly toll will rise more sharply in the summer.

In the most recent killing, a man, 35, was stabbed to death in Turnpike Lane just over a week ago.

Ministers have blamed the surge in murders on gangs vying for control of the lucrative drugs market, and have promised to get a grip on the epidemic.

The crackdown, announced today by new Home Secretary Sajid Javid, comes after months of bloody carnage on Britain's streets.

Speaking to The Sun on Sunday, Mr Javid said: 'I want to ensure we do all we can to tackle rising knife crime.

'Used wrongly, all knives are dangerous. I'll restrict all online knife sales so they must be delivered to a non-residential address.'

He added: 'There's no reason anyone needs zombie knives. But if police raid your house and you have one, they are powerless to act.

Zombie blades (pictured) will be banned in Britain under a fresh Government crackdown launched in the wake of Britain's bloody knife crime epidemic.

Mr Javid has also summoned YouTube, Twitter and Facebook chiefs to discuss ways to stop the web being used to breed crime.

It comes amid continued concern that gang videos glorifying murder and violence are being allowed to stay online for far too long.

Ministers will present his Offensive Weapons Bill to Parliament this week.

While the Government has vowed to crackdown on the deadly weapons, it has also come in for heavy criticism for not doing more to tackle the problem.

Theresa May cracked down on the use of stop and search powers while at the head of the Home Office - a move some of her critics warn have said helped fuel the knife crime epidemic.

While Labour says cuts to cash-strapped police forces since 2010 has seen officer numbers plunge and seriously eroded neighbourhood policing capabilities.

Figures released in January showed that recorded crime has leapt by the biggest spike in crime since 1990.

The number of crimes logged by police is up 14 per cent to 5.3million, recorded crime statistics published by Office for National Statistics showed.

Theresa May (pictured heading to church in Maidenhead today with her husband Philip) cracked down on the use of stop and search powers while at the head of the Home Office - a move some of her critics warn have said helped fuel the knife crime epidemic.

Statisticians said the data show continuing rises in the number of 'higher-harm' violent offences, which were most evident in knife and gun crime categories.

Police forces registered 37,443 offences involving a knife and 6,694 gun crimes, the figures show.

The Crime Survey for England and Wales - seen as a more accurate measure overall by the ONS but which fails to correctly track the most serious crimes - has crime down as a whole, in line with long term trends.

Separate statistics showed there were 121,929 police officers in the 43 forces in England and Wales at the end of September 2017 - the lowest number since comparable records began in 1996.