Editing Keith Vaz (section)

{{Short description|Former British Labour MP}}
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{{Use British English|date=October 2019}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name             = Keith Vaz
| honorific-suffix = 
| image            = File:Official portrait of Keith Vaz crop 2.jpg
| caption          = Official portrait, 2017
| office           = Chairman of the [[Home Affairs Select Committee]]
| term_start       = 26 July 2007
| term_end         = 6 September 2016
| predecessor      = [[John Denham (politician)|John Denham]]
| successor        = [[Tim Loughton]] (acting)
| office1          = [[Minister of State for Europe]]
| primeminister1   = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start1      = 9 May 1999
| term_end1        = 11 June 2001
| predecessor1     = [[Geoff Hoon]]
| successor1       = [[Peter Hain]]
| office2          = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[Leicester East]]
| term_start2      = 11 June 1987
| term_end2        = 6 November 2019
| predecessor2     = [[Peter Bruinvels]]
| successor2       = [[Claudia Webbe]]
| majority2        = 
| birth_name       = Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1956|11|26|df=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Aden Colony]] (now [[Yemen]])
| death_date       = 
| death_place      = 
| party            = {{ublist
 | One Leicester (since 2024)
 | [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] (until 2024)
}}
| relations        = [[Valerie Vaz]] (sister)
| spouse           = Maria Fernandes
| children         = 2
| alma_mater       = [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])
| religion         = 
| website          = 
}}

'''Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz''' (born 26 November 1956) is a British politician who served as the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Leicester East]] for 32 years, from [[1987 United Kingdom general election|1987]] to [[2019 United Kingdom general election|2019]]. He is the [[UK Parliament]]'s longest-serving [[British Asians in politics of the United Kingdom|British Asian MP]].

Vaz served as the [[Minister for Europe]] between October 1999 and June 2001. He was appointed a member of the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]] in June 2006. He was Chairman of the [[Home Affairs Select Committee]] from July 2007, but resigned from this role on 6 September 2016 after the ''[[Sunday Mirror]]'' revealed he had engaged in [[Bareback (sex)|unprotected sexual activity]] with male [[sex worker]]s and had said he would pay for [[cocaine]] if they wished to use it.

At the end of October 2016, Vaz was appointed to the [[Justice Select Committee]]; a parliamentary vote to block his appointment was defeated.<ref name="Hughes">{{cite news |last=Hughes |first=Laura |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/01/tory-mps-defeat-bid-to-stop-keith-vaz-from-being-appointed-to-ju/ |title=Tory MPs defeat bid to stop Keith Vaz from being appointed to Justice Committee |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=1 November 2016 |access-date=1 November 2016}}</ref> On 10 November 2019, he said in a statement that he was retiring from Parliament and would not be standing for re-election at the general election the following month.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50369905 |title=Labour's Keith Vaz will not stand for re-election |date=10 November 2019 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>

He stood in the [[2024 United Kingdom general election]] in Leicester East for the One Leicester party.<ref name=":3">{{cite web |title=x.com |url=https://twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1798786194945487041 |access-date=6 June 2024 |website=X (formerly Twitter)}}</ref> He was consequently expelled from the Labour Party.<ref name="ol">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/07/disgraced-keith-vaz-kicked-out-of-labour-as-he-stands-for-one-leicester-party |title=Disgraced Keith Vaz expelled from Labour as he stands for One Leicester party |date=7 June 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> He failed in his election bid, finishing fifth with 3,681 votes.