The new MP for North Shropshire has declared that if the Lib Dems can win there, they can win anywhere.

Helen Morgan made the claim as she took part in a victory rally in Oswestry just hours after she was confirmed as the new MP for the region.

She appeared alongside former party leader Tim Farron and current deputy leader Daisy Cooper on Friday morning.

After Ms Morgan used a yellow pin to pop a large blue balloon which had “Boris’ Bubble” emblazoned on the side, Mr Farron said: “I don’t know if you realise how many millions of people have woken up this morning feeling a bit of light has broken into the darkness.

“But it turns out, if you are incompetent, it turns out if you tell lies, it turns out if you take the people for granted, there is a price to pay.

“Democracy and justice is alive and well in Britain and the people of North Shropshire have spoken for the whole of Britain last night,” the Lib Dem MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale added.

The trio were then joined by Lib Dem supporters and a media scrum as they made their way around the town on a 25-minute victory lap, before Ms Morgan took questions while at the Bailey Head pub.

She took the seat by nearly 6,000 votes over-turning the Conservatives’ almost-23,000 majority.

It comes after former MP Owen Paterson resigned over corruption allegations.

On Friday morning, Ms Morgan said: “If we can win in North Shropshire, we can win anywhere.”

Asked by reporters if the Liberal Democrats were coming out of a “difficult decade” for the party, she said: “We’ve had two sensational wins: I think in Chesham and Amersham it was, what 24 per cent?

“This has been 34%.

“We’re proving that we can make those things happen on the ground.”