Keith Vaz

Sonic67

BBC News - Labour MP Keith Vaz faces six-month suspension after drug and sex probe
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Labour's Keith Vaz faces six-month suspension                                                                                                        The MP "disregarded" the law by offering to obtain cocaine for male prostitutes, a watchdog finds.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                www.bbc.co.uk

krish

Should hopefully trigger a recall petition.

Sonic67

Has Labour withdrawn the whip from Vaz?

Or is he still using it?

tapzilla2k

We'll have to see how Vaz fares in the General Election. Though even if he wins, I suspect he'll still be facing a recall petition at some point.

mooperman

there was a time when he was untouchable in Leicester - not sure how that's held up since all this came out though..

pinnocchio

IFTFY

mooperman

wasnt it a washing machine salesman or something like that

i mean fair play he got some stick after the whole john lewis cushions on his expenses debacle but he obviously thought that he could out-do that

krish

from the tone of his 'base' I heard talking on the radio, they sadly appear disgusted about the gay stuff rather than drugs and corruption
- so he may be brought down by the ultraconservative bunch he once burnt books with

mooperman

does not surprise me.

tapzilla2k

He might not even get to stand, Kate Green (Labour MP I think) is pushing for his suspension to be sorted before Parliament is dissolved -
https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/Standards-Committee/191029-Correspondence-from-the-Chair-to-the-Leader-of-the-House.pdf

I'm not sure if being suspended from Parliament would automatically bar him from standing for election or not.