London sources have added that Indian origin British Labour MP Keith Vaz has stepped down as chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee following allegations he paid two male prostitutes for sex and offered to cover the cost of Class A drugs at his London flat and the MP for Leicester East, has issued an apology after the Sunday Mirror reported he met and paid two Eastern European male escorts at his property in Edgware and boasted about having unprotected sex.
It is stated that during the meeting, the 59 year old allegedly offered to cover the cost of cocaine if it were brought to the flat, but has refused to have any himself and a series of text messages published by the newspaper allegedly show Vaz asking for the legal “high poppers” to be brought to the meeting and the substance is widely used as a sex enhancing drug.
Meanwhile in a statement issued to the Mail on Sunday, Vaz, who has been chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee since 2007, has said that he was genuinely sorry for the hurt and distress that has been caused by his actions in particular to his wife and children and he will be informing the Committee on Tuesday of my intention to stand aside from chairing the sessions of the Committee with immediate effect.
According to the Sunday Mirror, Vaz had at least two meetings with the prostitutes and had made contact with the pair through an escort they knew in London and the Home Affairs Select Committee is presently overseeing an inquiry into prostitution laws. An interim report recommended significant changes to existing laws so that soliciting and brothel keeping are decriminalized.
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