Keith Vaz
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 68 |
| 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 suspends entire Leicester East constituency branch
By Sam MoorhouseLocal Democracy Reporting Service
The Labour Party has suspended its entire Leicester East branch.
The National executive (NEC) is investigating the troubled constituency Labour Party (CLP) over concerns around its operation, according to the (LDRS).
Branch and constituency meetings will be stopped " until further notice" and all officers have been " relieved of their positions and duties" according to an email seen by the LDRS.
The CLP has been contacted for comment.
It has not been confirmed specifically what prompted the suspension.
A Labour Party source said in reaction: " The NEC has a duty to safeguard the integrity of CLPs, to ensure that they are properly run In Line with The Party 's rules and procedures and can operate fully, inclusively and democratically. "
It Comes after what has already been a turbulent year for Labour in Leicester following mass deselections ahead of the 2023 Local Elections in May.
The National committee purged 19 of its councillors ahead of the elections - a decision slammed as " undemocratic" at The Time .
A majority of those deselected were from a Black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) background, which also led to criticism. Labour sources stressed that the newly-selected candidates were representative of all communities.
But The Party lost a significant number of seats in Leicester East wards following the shake-up, managing only 31 seats in the 2023 Local Elections compared to 53 in 2019.
Rushey Mead , Belgrave, North Evington and Evington were previously Labour strongholds within the constituency. The areas had all-Labour councillors after the 2019 elections but lost all seats to Conservative candidates this year.
At Parliamentary level, current Leicester East MP Claudia Webbe was elected under Labour but was expelled from The Party in 2021 After Her , a friend of her boyfriend Lester Thomas, for More Than 18 Months .
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.
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City mayor, Labour's Sir Peter Soulsby, told the LDRS the suspension had " been a long time coming".
He Said : " It has been very evident that in this constituency party there were A Number of concerns about The Way in which it was operating and these were, of course, exacerbated during the run-up to The Last city council election.
" It was clear The Intervention the National Party conducted more generally in Leicester was very much influenced by their concern about this particular constituency and its operation.
" Councillors, both Labour and in other parties, will continue to operate as effective representatives of the electorates during This Time .
" I would be very surprised if anybody in the Labour Party in Leicester will be in the slightest bit surprised at The News and The General feeling is the operation and the control of that party has been problematic for A Number of years. I think it is a very healthy move. "
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
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