Today Keith Vaz has stepped down as chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee following a series of claims about his personal life. His decision comes after a number of his Labour comrades tried to help his cause by going onto the airwaves to wax lyrical about their colleague.
Simon Danczuk — who is currently suspended from the party for sexting a 17-year-old — appeared on the Victoria Derbyshire show to claim that Vaz is a well-respected MP. He was joined by Ken Livingstone — who is currently suspended from the party over his claim that Hitler was ‘supporting Zionism’ before he ‘went mad and ended up killing six million Jews’.
Livingstone did manage to wax lyrical about Vaz briefly. He praised his work and said that the public should wait to find out the facts. Livingstone also questioned ‘just how vulnerable’ the male prostitutes Vaz is alleged to have relations with were. Then Livingstone moved on to talking about… Hitler. When asked about his suspension, the former Mayor of London decided it was an opportune time to repeat his Hitler comments:
‘It’s now four months since I’ve been suspended and I’m still waiting for the committee to sit down and decide whether what I said was true or not and I think that the reason they keep putting me off is because I’ve got so much evidence that what I was saying is true.’
Mr S suspects Vaz would be in a better position in future if those who come to his defence are not MPs currently suspended from the party.
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