UK Attorney General Dominic Grieve on Saturday said politicians needed to wake up to the growing problem of corruption within some ethnic communities, BBC Urdu has reported.
Talking to The Telegraph, he said his remarks mainly referred to those in the Pakistani community but said that he would not narrow down the issue to one ethnic group
He said corruption was also found in white skinned Caucasian people but its rise was due to the ethnic minorities who had roots in countries where corruption had become endemic.
“It is something as politicians we have to wake up to,” he said.
He said many people had come from societies where they have been brought up to believe they could only get certain things through a favour culture.
“One of the things you have to make absolutely clear is that that is not the case and it’s not acceptable.”
The attorney also pinpointed electoral fraud as an area of concern, which echoes comments made in 2010 by Conservative MP Baroness Warsi.
Lady Warsi told the New Statesman magazine there were “at least three seats where we lost, where we didn’t gain the seat, based on electoral fraud” and said the problems were “predominantly within the Asian community”.
According to Express.co.uk, Labour MP Khalid Mahmood told BBC Radio 5 Live that he was disturbed by Grieve’s comments.
He said the attorney general was trying to ‘divide and conquer’ within communities.
“I’m profoundly disturbed at a statement from such a senior Conservative MP against the British Pakistani community,” he told BBC Radio 5 live, adding that this [such statements] did not help bring communities together
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