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# Lichfield MP says Prime Minister has “imagination and boldness” needed to see country through current challenges
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/lichfield-mp-says-prime-minister-has-imagination-and-boldness-needed-to-see-country-through-current-challenges/
- Published: 2021-12-20T19:21:47.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-20T19:33:37.000Z
- Description: Lichfield’s MP says the Prime Minister has the “imagination and boldness” needed to see the country through its current challenges.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:15, News

Lichfield’s MP says the Prime Minister has the “imagination and boldness” needed to see the country through its current challenges.

![Michael Fabricant. Picture: UK Parliament](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/lsdx1x8o.jpg)

Michael Fabricant. Picture: UK Parliament

Michael Fabricant made his comments in [an interview with GB News](https://youtu.be/VsoKO5V7j2A?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk).

The Conservative MP said talk of parties was distracting from the bigger picture of success in the vaccination programme.

![Boris Johnson. Pic: Annika Haas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/1024px-informal_meeting_of_foreign_affairs_ministers_gymnich-_round_table_boris_johnson_36913612672_cropped.jpg)

Boris Johnson. Pic: Annika Haas

> “The drip, drip, drip \[of stories\] is so artificial. All these exposes of so called parties – there’s obviously somebody or some people doing it deliberately.  
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> “The point I would make is look what’s going on as well. We’ve got the strongest economy of any large country in Europe and by far the very best vaccine programme in Europe. Some European countries don’t even have a booster programme.  
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> “This is an unprecedented pandemic in our lifetime. Any Prime Minister would be having problems at the moment.  
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> “It needs imagination, it needs boldness – that’s what he’s got.”  
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> Michael Fabricant MP

Mr Fabricant said the Government did need to look at where the leaks were coming from.

> “I used to work in the media and if I was being fed photographs and information, of course I’d publish it.  
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> “I’m not blaming the media, but I am blaming the people leaking it.  
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> “The events in themselves are not necessarily breaking the law anyway. However, I will say that while I think Boris is very much in charge I do wonder whether all at Number 10 are as adult as they should be.  
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> “I hope that’s something Boris will be thinking of very carefully.”  
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> Michael Fabricant MP