The Labour leader will pledge to restore standards in public life with "a total crackdown on cronyism" in a speech marking the beginning of the election year.
Sources have told the Guardian that a range of policy options are being considered as part of the cleanup plan, including tougher sentences for "fraud against the public purse", such as the billions wasted through Covid loan schemes.
However a separate pledge to impose a five-year moratorium on former ministers from lobbying on behalf of companies over which they once had oversight is likely to be scaled back, the Guardian understands.
In a speech designed to set the tone for what is likely to be a bitterlyfought election campaign to come, Starmer will warn that repeated public scandals risk undermining voters' faith in politics in general.
The Labour leader is set to say: "Trust in politics is now so low, so degraded, that nobody believes anyone can make a difference anymore.
"After the sex scandals, the expenses scandals, the waste scandals, the contracts for friends - even in a crisis like the pandemic - people think we're all just in it for ourselves."
He will add: "To change Britain, we must change ourselves - we need to clean up politics. No more VIP fast lanes, no more kickbacks for colleagues, no more revolving doors between government and the companies they regulate. I will restore standards in public life with a total crackdown on cronyism."
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