Chaudhry Sarwar, formerly a Labour MP in Glasgow and governor of Punjab, posted in Urdu over the weekend:
“Our hearts are saddened by the martyrdom of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. The Muslim Ummah has lost a strong voice of resistance. May Allah grant him Paradise. We share the grief of the Iranian nation equally.”
His son, the Scottish Labour leader, spoke to reporters just now:
“He’s wrong… I have my view, he has his. He expresses a view, I disagree with it, deeply disagree with it. But I’m a 42-year-old man, and what people say, or their fathers say, I’m sure many of us get embarrassed by what our old man says, often in normal life, never mind publicly.”
It’s like a bad dad joke!
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”