Sunday Mirror

VAZ MALE ESCORT: HE TOLD ME TO BE A LAWYER.. SO I AM

Sex scandal prostitute hits out at shamed MP

- BY NICK DORMAN

A MALE escort who exposed sex and cocaine scandal MP Keith Vaz is following in his footsteps – by training to be a lawyer.

The man revealed he has given up prostituti­on as he blasted disgraced Vaz, 62, who was given a six-month Parliament­ary ban on Thursday.

He said: “When I met him he told me I should become a lawyer and said ‘I’d be f***ing good at it”. So I’ve decided to take his advice so I can help people.”

Vaz made the remark during a taped meeting with the escort that led to the MP being exposed in 2016.

His ban was handed down after telling a parliament­ary watchdog two male prostitute­s he invited to his London flat were decorators he was hiring.

The Sunday Mirror revealed he paid for sex, asked the men to bring poppers, and offered to cover the cost if cocaine could be supplied. But Vaz said he did not want any of the Class A drug himself.

LIED

The escort – who has begun his legal studies – said married dad-oftwo Vaz’s suspension from Parliament was not before time. “He’s lied, lied and lied again. He has no respect for his constituen­ts, his work or his family,” said the man.

“The worst thing about him is the way he lied to those closest to him – and caused them so much embarrassm­ent arrassment by fighting this. If I was s him I’d have gone somewhere re quiet and stayed there.

“He He has a wife and children n – he’s made things so much ch worse for them by not admitting what he’s done.” e.”

Leicester eicester East Labour MP Vaz was heading the powerful erful Home Affairs Select Committee mmittee at the time of the scandal – while it was working on the biggest shakekeup p in prostituti­on l laws in a generation.

This wee week the Standards Committee concluded there was “compelling evidence” Vaz offered to pay for a class A drug and had paid-for sex in i August 2016.

On Friday it i emerged he is set to lose the Labo Labour whip after 32 years – but he could remain on the party’s national executive exe committee. The escort said: “Labour sho should get rid of him altoge gether. It’s disgusting he i is still involved. He’s

Teflon.” Vaz even tried to cover his tracks by telling the men he was a washing machine repair man named Jim.

“He lied about everything – even his identity,” said the escort. “He just uses people for his own ends.”

In a scathing report, the watchdog Standards Committee said there was “convincing evidence” Vaz – a solicitor before he was elected in 1987 – was “evasive or unhelpful” during an investigat­ion into his conduct by Commons standards commission­ers Kathryn Hudson and Kathryn Stone.

A statement on Vaz’s website “vigorously” rejected this allegation. He has since said he is being treated for a serious mental health condition.

MALE ESCORT ON SUSPENDED MP VAZ

 ??  ?? HIRED The two escorts
SCANDAL Escorts
EXPOSED By us in 2016
CAUGHT Vaz with male prostitute in his flat
HIRED The two escorts SCANDAL Escorts EXPOSED By us in 2016 CAUGHT Vaz with male prostitute in his flat

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