Keith Vaz

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Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz is a British Labour Party politician who served as Leicester East's Member of Parliament (MP)  for 32 years. Vaz has been a Labour Party member since 1982. He was the British Parliament's longest-serving British Asian MP. Vaz served as the Minister for Europe between October 1999 and June 2001. He was appointed a member of the Privy Council in June 2006. He was Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee from July 2007, till 2016. Vaz has held a variety of parliamentary posts.  

Vaz was born in the British crown colony of Aden on 26 November 1956. The Vaz family hailed from Goa.  Before his political career, Vaz was a practising solicitor. In 1982, he was employed as a solicitor to Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council; and later as a senior solicitor to the London Borough of Islington. (Collected from the public domain)

 

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