Keith Vaz
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 67 |
| Date of birth | November 26,1956 |
| Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
| Born | Aden Colony |
| Office | Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Spouse | Maria Fernandes Vaz |
| Party | Labour Party |
| Children | Anjali Vaz |
| Luke Vaz | |
| Siblings | Valerie Vaz |
| Penny McConnell | |
| Full name | Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz |
| Education | Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge |
| Parents | Anthony Xavier Vaz |
| Merlyn Vaz | |
| Previous position | Minister of State of the United Kingdom for Europe and North America (1999–2001) |
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| ID | 420159 |
Keith Vaz Life story
Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Leicester East for 32 years, from 1987 to 2019. He was the British Parliament's longest-serving British Asian MP. Vaz served as the Minister for Europe between October 1999 and June 2001.
Labour suspends entire Leicester East constituency branch
... Previous Labour MP for the constituency Keith Vaz, who served as an MP for 32 years, retired from Parliament after being caught with male prostitutes and offering to get drugs for them...
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer calls for Claudia Webbe to resign
... " Webbe was elected as Leicester East MP in 2019, replacing Keith Vaz who after he was found to have " expressed willingness" to buy cocaine for others...
Elephant Man city statue plan faces 'freak show' criticism
... And last April, then-Deputy Keith Vaz, a statue of a language should be built, died in a helicopter crash outside of club stadium in 2018...
General election 2019: Labour's Keith Vaz will not stand for re-election
...Labour s Keith Vaz, who was suspended from the Commons after he was found to have expressed willingness to purchase cocaine for others, will not be standing for re-election...
General Election 2019: Labour bans three former MPs from standing again
... Labour s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) has not made a final decision on whether Keith Vaz can stand for the party, the BBC understands...
MP Keith Vaz suspended from Commons after drug and sex inquiry
...Labour MP Keith Vaz has been suspended from the Commons for six months after he was found to have expressed willingness to purchase cocaine for male prostitutes...
Which MPs are standing down at the election?
...Clockwise from top left: Keith Vaz, Heidi Allen, Philip Hammond, Rory Stewart, Amber Rudd, Nick Boles, Tom Watson and Nicky Morgan The general election date is fast approaching and many familiar faces from the House of Commons have cleared their desks for the last time...
News Daily: Grenfell fire report and PM's election bid
... Elsewhere, the Daily Mirror leads on the shame of Labour MP Keith Vaz, who faces a possible Commons suspension after its standards body found compelling evidence he offered to pay for a class A drug and had paid-for sex in August 2016...
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer calls for Claudia Webbe to resign
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for MP Claudia Webbe to resign following her harassment conviction.
Webbe, the ex-Labour MP for Leicester East who is now independent,
The MP, who was jealous of her partner Lester Thomas's relationship with Michelle Merritt, threatened an acid attack and to share nude images of her.
Sir Keir said Webbe, 56, " should Stand Down [as an MP] and if she doesn't we will support a recall Petition ".
Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, Sir Keir said Labour would push for such a Petition to force a by-election if she did not quit The Commons .
" When Claudia Webbe was charged the Labour Party suspended her, " He Said .
" When she was then convicted, we didn't argue with The Conviction , we expelled her from the Labour Party .
" We now say she she should resign and we would support a recall Petition . "
A recall Petition - where her constituents would be asked if they want to replace her - would trigger a by-election if at least 10% of her constituents supported it.
However, it can only be opened once all appeals have been extinguished and The Conviction is not overturned.
'I Am innocent'Webbe said she was appealing against her conviction, adding she was " surprised" the Labour Party had not waited until the conclusion of the legal process before expelling her.
In a statement, She Said : " I Am very disappointed by the decision of The Magistrate and want to strongly reiterate that I Am innocent.
" I fully expect The Appeal to be granted and that, ultimately, it will be successful. "
Webbe was elected as Leicester East MP in 2019, replacing Keith Vaz who after he was found to have " expressed willingness" to buy cocaine for others.
She worked as a councillor where she lives, in Islington in North London , between 2010 and 2018.
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