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Keith Vaz (Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz) was born on 26 November, 1956 in Aden Colony (now Yemen), is a Former British Labour MP. Discover Keith Vaz's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

Popular As Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz
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Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 26 November, 1956
Birthday 26 November
Birthplace Aden Colony (now Yemen)
Nationality United Kingdom

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1954

Vaz has two sisters, Valerie (born 1954), who has been the MP for Walsall South since 2010, and Penny McConnell, who is a solicitor.

He lives in London with his wife, Maria Fernandes, and their two children, a son and a daughter.

Before his political career, Vaz was a practising solicitor.

1956

Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz (born 26 November 1956) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester East for 32 years, from 1987 to 2019.

He was the British Parliament's longest-serving British Asian MP.

Keith Vaz was born in the British crown colony of Aden, on 26 November 1956, to Anthony Xavier and Merlyn Verona Vaz.

The Vaz family hailed from Goa, now an Indian state, which accounts for his Goan-Portuguese surname.

1965

He moved to England with his family in 1965, settling in Twickenham.

His father, previously a correspondent for The Times of India, worked in the airline industry, while his mother held jobs both as a teacher and simultaneously part-time in Marks & Spencer.

Vaz's father took his own life when Vaz was 14.

Merlyn Vaz moved to Leicester when her son was selected as prospective parliamentary candidate for the Leicester East constituency.

She was elected to Leicester City Council as a Labour councillor and served on the council for 14 years.

While in Aden, Vaz was educated at St Joseph's Convent.

In England, he attended Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith, followed by Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read law.

1979

He graduated from Cambridge University with a BA first-class Honours degree (1979), later promoted to MA (1987).

1982

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.

Vaz has been a Labour party member since 1982.

1983

In 1983, Vaz stood in the general election as the Labour candidate in the Conservative-Liberal marginal Richmond and Barnes constituency, coming third with a swing away from Labour of 4.3% compared with a national average swing away of 9.3%.

1984

He stood as the Labour candidate in the European Parliament election in 1984 for Surrey West, coming third.

1985

He was selected as the prospective Labour candidate for the Leicester East constituency in 1985.

At that time, he found a job in Leicester as a solicitor at the City Council-funded Highfields and Belgrave Law Centre.

1987

He remained in this role until his election to Parliament in 1987.

On 11 June 1987, Vaz was elected as the Member of Parliament for Leicester East by defeating the sitting Tory MP Peter Bruinvels with a majority of 1,924.

Three other Labour Party Black Sections members, Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant, entered the House of Commons at the same election.

Between 1987 and 1992, he was a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee, of which he was the chair from July 2007 to September 2016.

1992

Vaz was re-elected in 1992 (majority of 11,316), 1997 (majority of 18,422), 2001 (majority of 13,442), 2005 (majority of 15,867), 2010 (majority of 14,082), 2015 (majority of 18,352) and 2017 (majority of 22,428).

Vaz has held a variety of parliamentary posts.

In 1992, Vaz was given the role of Shadow Junior Environment Minister with responsibility for planning and regeneration, his first frontbench role.

1993

Between 1993 and 1994, he was a member of the Executive Committee Inter-Parliamentary Union.

1997

He remained in this position until 1997, when he was given his first Government post as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Attorney General and Solicitor General.

1999

Vaz served as the Minister for Europe between October 1999 and June 2001.

Vaz then served as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department between May and October 1999.

This was quickly followed by his appointment as the Minister for Europe, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

He served in this position from October 1999 and June 2001.

2002

Finally, between December 2002 and July 2007, Vaz acted as a senior Labour Member of the Select Committee for Constitutional Affairs.

2006

He was appointed a member of the Privy Council in June 2006.

2016

He was Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee from July 2007, but resigned from this role on 6 September 2016 after the Sunday Mirror revealed he had engaged in unprotected sexual activity with male prostitutes and had said he would pay for cocaine if they wished to use it.

At the end of October 2016, Vaz was appointed to the Justice Select Committee; a parliamentary vote to block his appointment was defeated.

2017

Vaz is a distant relative of Saint Joseph Vaz, a 17th-century missionary.

2019

On 10 November 2019, he said in a statement that he was retiring from Parliament and would not be standing for re-election at the general election the following month.