A senior
Labour MP is facing moves to oust him from parliament after he was recorded allegedly paying male escorts for sex and offering to buy cocaine.
Keith Vaz was found by the standards committee to have breached the Commons code of conduct by showing willingness to buy class A drugs for others to use.
It recommended a six month suspension from parliament, a sanction which would trigger a recall petition in Vaz’s Leicester East seat if MPs approve it in a Commons vote.
The committee said Vaz had shown both a “disregard for the law” and “disrespect” for the Commons’ standards system, causing “significant damage to the reputation and integrity of the House of Commons as a whole”.
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