London  - A Conservative member of parliament (MP) in Britain has accused the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) of fuelling anti-foreigner sentiment by focusing its reporting on migration on "white Christians from Poland."

Daniel Kawczynski, 36, whose family came to Britain from Poland in 1940, said Wednesday that the "liberal elite" at the BBC had decided to avoid the debate on "more controversial aspects of immigration" by focusing on the influx of Poles since the country's EU membership in 2004.

In reality, nine out of 10 immigrants to Britain were not Poles or other east Europeans, but people from the Indian sub-continent, Africa and the West Indies, Kawczynski said in an angry interview with BBC radio presenter John Humphrys.

He alleged that as a result of the BBC's reporting, there had been a rise in attacks in attacks on Poles in Britain.

"The liberal elite of the BBC are using the Poles as a cat's paw in a politically correct world to talk about immigration because you won't do stories about more controversial immigrants.

"You always focus on Poles. And as a result of that, Mr Humphrys, there are increased attacks on Poles in this country."

Kawczynski, who won the seat of Shrewsbury and Atcham, in the south-western county of Shropshire, for the Conservatives in 2005, also said that Britain had forgotten the contribution made by Polish pilots in the air battle against Nazi Germany, the Battle of Britain, in World War II.

He would, therefore, make a bid in parliament to introduce a special holiday in Britain to mark the "contribution made by Poles to the UK since 1940," Kawczynski said.

His family came to Britain in 1940 after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany.

Kawczynski, who at a height of 2.04 metres is the tallest MP in the House of Commons, was born in 1972, studied in Scotland and is married with one daughter.

"I have said very little about Poles during my three years in parliament but I have been forced now, as somebody of Polish origin, to raise this in parliament," he told the BBC.

About 1 million migrants from Eastern Europe have arrived in Britain since 2004, with the majority coming from Poland, according to research by the Institute of Public Policy Research, although half of them are thought to have returned home. (dpa)