Editing Keith Vaz (section)

==Early and personal life==
Keith Vaz was born in the [[Colony of Aden|British crown colony of Aden]],<ref name=indpro>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/keith-vaz-who-is-keith-vaz-male-prostitute-claims-home-affairs-select-committee-chairman-stands-down-a7225296.html |title=Keith Vaz: Who is the Labour MP caught up in male prostitute claims? |work=[[The Independent]] |date=4 September 2016}}</ref> on 26 November 1956,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blackletterlawpublication.com/feature/keith-vaz-mp |title=Keith Vaz MP |work=Black Lawyers Directory |date=24 October 2012}}</ref> to Anthony Xavier and Merlyn Verona Vaz.<ref>Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd, 2010, p. 348</ref><ref name=":2">{{cite web|title=Merylene Vaz|url=http://www.family-announcements.co.uk/localworld/view/1000201/merlyn-vaz|website=Family announcements|access-date=17 January 2017|archive-date=20 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170120171037/http://www.family-announcements.co.uk/localworld/view/1000201/merlyn-vaz|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Vaz family hailed from [[Goa]] (then part of [[Portuguese India]]), now an [[India]]n state, which accounts for his [[Goan Catholic names and surnames|Goan-Portuguese]] surname.<ref name=indtef>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/keith-vaz-the-teflon-mp-who-enjoys-the-limelight-9038101.html |title=Keith Vaz: The 'Teflon MP' who enjoys the limelight |work=The Independent |date=4 January 2014}}</ref> Vaz is a distant relative of [[Joseph Vaz|Saint Joseph Vaz]], a 17th-century missionary.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2014/09/18/relative-of-british-mp-to-become-sri-lankas-first-saint/ |title=Relative of British MP to become Sri Lanka's first saint |work=[[Catholic Herald]] |date=18 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140920010333/http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2014/09/18/relative-of-british-mp-to-become-sri-lankas-first-saint/ |archive-date=20 September 2014 }}</ref> He moved to England with his family in 1965, settling in [[Twickenham]].<ref name=indpro />

His father, previously a correspondent for ''[[The Times of India]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/04/keith-vaz-one-scandal-too-many-for-the-publicity-seeking-mp|title=Keith Vaz: one scandal too many for the publicity-seeking MP|first=Helen|last=Pidd|date=4 September 2016|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> worked in the airline industry, while his mother held jobs both as a teacher and simultaneously part-time in [[Marks & Spencer]]. Vaz's father [[suicide|took his own life]] when Vaz was 14.<ref name="Personal">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jan/02/keith-vaz-jacintha-saldanha-children-this-could-be-me |title=Keith Vaz on Jacintha Saldanha's children: 'This could be me 42 years ago' |last=Laville |first=Sandra |date= 2 January 2013 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> Merlyn Vaz moved to Leicester when her son was selected as prospective parliamentary candidate for the Leicester East constituency. She was elected to [[Leicester City Council]] as a Labour councillor and served on the council for 14 years.

While in Aden, Vaz was educated at St Joseph's Convent. In England, he attended [[Latymer Upper School]], [[Hammersmith]], followed by [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]], where he read law. He graduated from [[Cambridge University]] with a BA first-class Honours degree (1979), later [[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)|promoted]] to MA (1987).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/candidates/candidates/3/36106.stm |title=Candidate: Keith Vaz |publisher=BBC News |date=2001}}</ref>

Vaz has two sisters,<ref name=indtef /> [[Valerie Vaz|Valerie]] (born 1954), who has been the MP for [[Walsall South]] since [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010]],<ref name=indpro /> and Penny McConnell, who is a solicitor.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1327545/Ministers-sister-wins-race-bias-settlement.html |title=Minister's sister wins race bias settlement |work=[[Daily Telegraph]] |date=23 March 2001}}</ref> He lives in London with his wife, Maria Fernandes, and their two children, a son and a daughter.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/04/keith-vaz-how-the-teflon-mp-has-survived-numerous-scandals/ |title=Keith Vaz: How the 'Teflon MP' has survived numerous scandals |work=Daily Telegraph |date=4 September 2016}}</ref>