Mr. Vaz was then asked for a meeting time, and replied by text: “11pm nice and late”.
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“What Keith does is for Keith, and any decisions he wishes to make are for him. I don’t think it’s a resigning mater”.
The Leicester East MP is also facing a possible investigation by Commons sleaze watchdogs, having been reported by a Conservative backbencher.
“I think he has the backing of Labour colleagues”, said Mr Ashworth.
“I can not believe he would use anyone linked to the charity to pay cash into an account to pay for his escorts”.
Vaz set up Silver Star six years ago after being diagnosed with diabetes himself and the charity now operates worldwide to raise awareness of the debilitating and life threatening condition.
“The commission has asked journalists to forward any details and evidence they have in order to determine whether there is a regulatory role for the commission”.
Malde Modhwadia, who has served as a trustee of the charity, said he was unaware of the payments or whether the charity had any involvement.
The committee is now examining prostitution in the United Kingdom and had issued a report recently saying that soliciting by sex workers to be decriminalised, mentioned PTI report. “As far as I’m aware it is a private matter and I will obviously talk to Keith”.
Keith Vaz, Britain’s longest serving Indian-origin MP, is embroiled in a sex scandal after a newspaper claimed he had paid for male prostitutes.
When questioned about whether this conflict of interest exists, Mr Tatchell said: “We don’t demand that MPs who buy or own cars declare an interest or step down from committees when they’re debating legislation affecting the auto industry, so why should Keith Vaz’s particular scenario be any different”.
Several newspapers report that Mr Vaz is to step down as Home Affairs Select Committee chairman but he has not confirmed this, saying he will tell the committee his plans first on Tuesday.
A leading news portal quoted, “Select Committees do vital work in holding the government and others to account”.
Married with two children 59-year-old Vaz has apologised to his family for the distress caused, while also condemning the Sunday Mirror’s story as “deeply disturbing”.
“Keith Vaz, as I understand it, has said he will stand aside from the chairmanship and given the areas for which the committee is responsible, that does seem to me to be a sensible course of action”.
He said: “I think is a very hard time for Keith and his family. I’m going to attack you”. “This is not a set-up, we have not entrapped him into anything he was not doing anyway”. He, speaking to his lawyer and other members of the committee explains that he has not resigned completely, but temporarily.
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Mr. Vaz, who had turned up at Luton airport to welcome the arrivals on the day Romania joined the EU in 2014, added: “We like Eastern Europeans, they’re nice”.
