London, Mar. 16 : Keith Vaz, the Brit-Indian Labour MP, is facing calls to resign as the chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee after a letter surfaced that said that he had asked a High Court judge to halt a case in which a friend stood to lose 400,000 pounds.

According to The Telegraph, Vaz intervened on behalf of a Shahrokh Mireskandari, a high-profile solicitor and convicted con man from whom he had allegedly received hospitality.

London, Nov. 18 : Senior Brit-Indian Labour MP Keith Vaz has said that the battle against knife crimes in the United Kingdom is “clearly not working”.

Vaz, the chairman of the influential Home Affairs Select Committee, said the latest stabbing at a music awards show in London showed the “urgent” need for action.

London, Sep 22 :

London, July 3 : The number game in the Indian parliamentary system began in the early 1990s when a few MPs were “awarded handsomely” for supporting the then Union Government in a minority. Lately, it seems, the phenomenon has reached across the seven seas to UK too. Recently, a member of the House of Commons was promised a “reward’ by his own partyman in return of his vote that led to Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s survival as the Labour leader.

The chief whip of the Labour Party in the House of Commons, Geoff Hoon reportedly sent a handwritten note to Keith Vaz, whose vote resulted in Brown’s win, thanking him for his crucial vote and promising him “reward” for the same.

Thanks to Vaz’s vote, Brown won the key vote by just nine votes.