Sex worker slams Keith Vaz’s ‘bloody cheek’ after sex-law grilling from him in Parliament
Campaigners called for Westminster's probe into vice laws to be scrapped following accusations against the disgraced MP
ONE of the sex workers grilled by Keith Vaz over Britain’s prostitution laws launched a furious attack on the “jaw-dropping hypocrite”.
Journalist and equality campaigner Paris Lees, 27, who was grilled by Vaz and the Home Affairs Select Committee in May, slammed the MP’s “bloody cheek” of allegedly paying for sex while reviewing prostitution.
Paris said: “This is same Keith Vaz who told me, last May, that he ‘couldn’t believe’ I’d never met a prostitute that hadn’t been forced into it.
“I told him that during my time on the game, I never met a prostitute who HAD been forced into it.
“Why is he allegedly paying prostitutes for sex if he thinks they are forced into it?
“Maybe I convinced him that, like me, most people do it because they want to do it.
“I was a ‘rent boy’ as a teenager, before I made the transition from male to female.”
“He’s leading a review of sex work. Another patronising North London hypocrite.”
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Meanwhile, campaigners called for Westminster’s vice probe to be scrapped following allegations about Keith Vaz.
Nordic Model Now, which wants men who buy sex prosecuted but not the prostitutes, said there was a conflict of interest.
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It said the Home Affairs select committee “must start afresh” with 50 per cent female membership — and no one who had bought sex.
In July the committee urged the legalisation of soliciting.