British MP Keith Vaz implicated in sex scandal

LONDON: Keith Vaz, Britain’s longest serving Indian-origin MP, was on Sunday embroiled in a sex scandal after a newspaper claimed he had paid for male prostitutes. The Labour MP from Leicester since 1987, who is a married father of two, paid for men to visit him one evening last month at a flat he owns in London, t he ‘Sunday Mirror’ claimed.

The 59-year-old Goan-origin MP has since announced he will be stepping aside as chair of the influential House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, which he has headed for the past 10 years. “I am genuinely sorry for the hurt and distress that has been caused by my actions, in particular to my wife and children,” he said in a statement reported by ‘Sky News’.