Ex-EastEnders star Brooke Kinsella has blasted MPs as six people are knifed to death in London in as many days.  Brooke, 37, is devastated that knife crime is still destroying so many lives 12 years after her brother Ben, 16, was fatally stabbed in the street.  She is furious so many chances to tackle the crime have been wasted.  She said: “What angers me most is that after 12 years of ­campaigning against knife crime, nothing seems to have changed.  "Why has it proven so difficult for successive Governments to implement a ­solution to end knife crime?”  Her impassioned plea for action comes in the wake of a sickening spate of stabbings.  On Monday Kamal Nuur, 18, was chased and knifed to death on a housing estate in Islington, North London – yards from the spot where Ben was killed – the fifth murder in five days.  On the same day, two teenagers were also stabbed outside their schools in Eltham and Bromley, South East London.  And less than 24 hours later, the death toll rose to six when Jaden Christie, 20, was killed in Lambeth, South London.  Brooke, who was Kelly Taylor in EastEnders for three years from 2001, said: “The bottomless grief, shock and anger that I felt then has ­suddenly resurfaced.  “I despair that another family is now having to come to terms with the unmeasurable loss of losing a son and brother.”  Last year London’s murder rate was the highest in more than a decade with 149 people killed – 90 in stabbing attacks.  And latest Office for National Statistics’ figures show knife crimes in England and Wales have risen six per cent to a new record high.  In the capital they are up seven per cent.  Stats also reveal ­police-recorded offences involving a knife or sharp instrument for the year to March rose to 46,265, from 43,706 in the previous 12 months.  The highest rate was in London, where over a third of all crimes were recorded, with 179 offences per 100,000 people.  Brooke, who helped form the Ben Kinsella Trust to help tackle knife crime, said: “Since Ben’s murder my family and I have done everything in our power to try and stop this senseless tragedy happening to another family.  “If I look back at what has happened since Ben’s murder, I can see a mass of missed opportunities.  "It is unforgivable politicians have sat idly by and watched as the ­organisations that are most effective at stopping knife crime had their funding cut.”  Ben was celebrating his GCSE results when he was killed – the 17th teen stabbed to death in London that year.  In 2009 Michael Alleyne, 18, Juress Kika, 19, and Jade Braithwaite, 20, all from London, were ­convicted at the Old Bailey of Ben’s murder.  The high-profile case led to widespread anti-knife protests and then-Justice Secretary Jack Straw subsequently changed the minimum tariff for murders committed with a knife from 15 to 25 years.  Brooke is calling for more funding for the police, as well as schools and youth services, saying drastic cuts have caused “major repercussions

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