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divdiv class=story-body readability=44 span class=story-date#13; span class=date23 November 2013/span#13;span class=time-textLast updated at /spanspan class=time04:32 ET/span#13; #13;/span#13;#13; #13;#13;#13; #13; #13; #13; #13; p class=introduction id=story_continues_1Attorney General Dominic Grieve has said politicians need to wake up to the issue of corruption in some minority communities./p#13; pMr Grieve a href=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10469448/Corruption-rife-in-the-Pakistani-community-says-minister.htmltold the Daily Telegraph/a it was not restricted to any one community but he was referring mainly to the Pakistani community./p#13; pHe said it must be made absolutely clear that a favour culture is unacceptable in Britain./p#13; pOne Pakistan-born MP accused Mr Grieve of dividing communities./p#13; pMr Grieve told the Telegraph he would be wary of saying it was just a Pakistani problem, pointing out corruption was found in the white Anglo-Saxon community too./p#13; div class=story-feature narrow#13; a class=hidden href=#story_continues_2Continue reading the main story/a h2 class=quote“spanStart Quote/span/h2#13;blockquote readability=1p class=first-childWe have managed integration of minority communities better than most countries in Europe”/p/blockquote#13;span class=endquoteEnd Quote/span#13; span class=quote-creditDominic Grieve/span#13; span class=quote-credit-titleAttorney General/span#13;#13; /div p id=story_continues_2But he said some immigrants come to Britain from countries where corruption is endemic./p#13; pThese are societies where they have been brought up to believe you can only get certain things through a favour culture, he said./p#13; pOne of the things you have to make absolutely clear is that is not the case and it's not acceptable./p#13; pMr Grieve, Conservative MP for Beaconsfield and the government's chief legal adviser, added: It is something as politicians we have to wake up to./p#13; span class=cross-head'Divide and conquer'/span#13; pIn a statement to the BBC, he said integration of ethnic minorities in the UK had delivered great benefits for all of us./p#13; pOn the issue of corruption, he added: I am absolutely clear that this problem is not attributable to any one community, as I know very well from my many years promoting community cohesion./p#13; pBut the Telegraph says when he was asked if he was referring to the Pakistani community, Mr Grieve said: Yes, it's mainly the Pakistani community, not the Indian community./p#13; pKhalid Mahmood, a Labour MP who came to the UK from Pakistan as a child, said the attorney general was marking out the Pakistani community as more corrupt than other minority groups./p#13; pThe MP for Birmingham Perry Barr told BBC Radio 5 live that Mr Grieve was trying to divide and conquer within communities./p#13; pHis comments were echoed by Lib Dem Qassim Afzal, chairman of the party's Friends of Pakistan group, who criticised what he called Mr Grieve's loose language./p#13; pI'm profoundly disturbed at a statement from such a senior Conservative MP against the British Pakistani community, he told BBC Radio 5 live./p#13; pThis doesn't help bring communities together./p#13; span class=cross-headElectoral fraud/span#13; pMr Grieve's warning echoes comments made by Conservative peer Baroness Warsi in 2010./p#13; #13; pShe 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./p#13; pBBC political correspondent Ben Wright said electoral fraud was a particular concern./p#13; pHe said the the issue of corruption in certain communities was sensitive territory for politicians, and that the attorney general was careful to qualify his comments by saying the problem was not restricted to one minority./p#13; pIn his interview with the newspaper, Mr Grieve also said he was very optimistic about the future of the UK./p#13; pWe have managed integration of minority communities better than most countries in Europe, he said./p#13; pBut he warned the UK's infrastructure could be put under strain if large numbers of people from Romania and Bulgaria come to the country when immigration controls expire in January./p#13; /div/divbrbrcentera href=http://www.wizardrss.comPowered By WizardRSS.com/a | a href=http://www.wizardrss.comFull Text RSS Feed/a | a href=http://www.amazon.com/RFID-Blocking-Cards-Identity-Protector/dp/B00CJHZLEWRFID/a | a href=http://www.wpzonbuilder.comAmazon Affiliate/a/center