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Keir Starmer to promise ‘total crackdown on cronyism’

2024-01-04 00:00:00.0 独立报-英国政治原网页

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Sir Keir Starmer is promising a “total crackdown on cronyism” if he becomes prime minister, with jail sentences of more than a decade for those who defraud the government.

In a pledge to restore standards in public life, the Labour leader will also double down on a promise to crack down on former ministers from taking lobbying jobs after leaving office.

But Sir Keir is reportedly considering scaling back a pledge to impose a five-year ban on the practice.

He will use a speech on Thursday to set the tone for what is expected to be a year-long bid to win power just five years after Labour’s worst election defeat since 1935.

Keir Starmer used a new year address to tell voters voters Britain’s future ‘rests in your hands’

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Extracts seen by The Guardian show Sir Keir is to say: “Trust in politics is now so low, so degraded, that nobody believes anyone can make a difference any more.

“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.

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