Keith Vaz.
Labour MP Keith Vaz is facing a demand for a parliamentary sleaze investigation after being exposed paying young men for sex.
The married father-of-two was caught meeting two Eastern European male prostitutes, believed to be Poles, for sex eight days ago and boasting about having unprotected sex, according to a newspaper.
Mr Vaz, 59, has stood aside from his long-standing role as chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee – which monitors crime, immigration and drugs policy – in the wake of the revelations. He has previously said he is ‘not convinced’ men who pay for sex should be prosecuted.
The MP reportedly told the men, ‘We need to get this party started’ as talk ranged from unprotected sex to pets, according to the Sunday Mirror.
In a series of texts, reproduced by the newspaper, he asked them to bring the sex-enhancing drug poppers to the meeting.
Mr Vaz, who fronted a safe sex campaign in his constituency last year, also reportedly texted one of the men saying: ‘You. I’m getting very horny’, after he was asked what he wanted.
It was reported that he paid the men in cash following the meeting in a £390,000 flat he owns near his £2.1million family home in Edgware, North London. There was no answer at his house today.