Not for nothing has Labour’s Afzal Khan been dubbed the ‘Honourable Member for Islamabad’. Born in Pakistan, where he lived until he was 11, the bearded MP has become perhaps the Commons’ most vocal cheerleader for his ancestral homeland. On Thursday, he was in his element, helping raise Pakistan’s national flag at the country’s consulate, found – where else? – in his Manchester Rusholme constituency, at an event to mark the anniversary of partition from India in 1947. The first Muslim Lord Mayor of Manchester, who speaks Urdu as a first language, Khan also finds time to chair the all-party...