No need to apologise - Telegraph Dominic Grieve, the Attorney General, is one of our most serious and thoughtful politicians. The idea that he would deliberately stoke up racial tensions in order to counter Ukip's anti-immigration rhetoric is absurd. Yet this has been the unjustified interpretation that some have placed upon his interview in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday. In it he observed that there is electoral corruption among sections of the Pakistani community that has been imported from the political practices that are rife in the Indian sub-continent. This is a fact but it does not mean that all Pakistani immigrants are corrupt or that most of them do not make a positive contribution to the UK. What Mr Grieve, in his punctilious way, was seeking to do was to point out that we are all equal under the law, whatever our background and origins - the very antithesis of discrimination, in other words. It is the principal reason why we have been so successful as a nation in integrating substantial numbers of immigrants without the social tensions seen in other countries. It is dispiriting that when a decent politician tries to make a well-intentioned point, the roof should fall in on him and he is placed under pressure to say sorry for something that does not warrant an apology. As the Government's chief law officer, Mr Grieve was pointing up a problem that will not go away simply by denying it exists but by ensuring it is dealt with in the same way as any other similar offence. It is a shame some of his Conservative colleagues did not endeavour to put what he said in the context in which it was clearly intended. The lack of support or expressions of embarrassment were ill-advised and merely fuelled the chorus of phoney condemnation that too often undermines attempts to conduct serious political debate nowadays.