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!
Speaking on the phone to Jonathan Karl, Chief Washington Correspondent at ABC News, about Khamenei, Trump said:
“I got him before he got me. They tried twice. Well, I got him first.”