New Delhi, Aug 2 - British MP Keith Vaz, chairman of the House Select Committee on Immigration, was in New Delhi to invite Congress bigwigs for his Labour party's annual conference at Brighton in late September. Labour is hoping that Rahul Gandhi will attend or the Congress will depute a high-profile leader. Curiously, when Vaz, whose parents hail from Goa, was here, a group of Tory MPs was also in Delhi at the invitation of the public diplomacy division of the external affairs ministry. The Friends of India group was led by Indian origin MP Sailesh Vara. Among its six members was another Indian-origin MP, Sandeep Verma. Evidently, India figures large on Britain's political agenda. The coming months will see a string of high-profile visits from Britain. Indian President Pratibha Patil goes there in October on a state visit at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth II.