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.
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