NORTH Shropshire's MP has called on Conservative MPs to ditch Prime Minister Boris Johnson after last night's by-election troubles.

Helen Morgan, who herself won the North Shropshire seat from the Conservatives in December, was speaking after her Liberal Democrat party overturned a majority of 24,000 to win the Tiverton and Honiton seat in Devon.

It came on the same night that the Wakefield seat in Yorkshire was reclaimed by the Labour Party.

Now Ms Morgan has said that the Conservative defeats should spell the end of Mr Johnson's time as Prime Minister.

She said: "This historic victory in Devon should be a wake-up call for all the Conservative MPs who are continuing to prop up Boris Johnson.

"My election should have been a wake-up call for the Prime Minister, but he remains as complacent and incompetent as ever.

The victory comes six months after Mrs Morgan and the Liberal Democrats overturned a Conservative majority of almost 23,000 to win North Shropshire.

Helen Morgan added: "If Conservative MPs won’t do the decent thing and show Boris Johnson the door, then it will be up to voters across Shropshire to do just that at the next General Election.

"My fellow Liberal Democrats and I will continue to stand up for all those who are being taken for granted by Boris Johnson and the Conservatives.

"We will fight for more support for our struggling NHS services, measures to ease the cost of living and help for our farmers.”

Of greater concern to Mr Johnson will be the rising Conservative voices calling for an end to his tenure as Prime Minister.

Former Conservative leader Michael Howard told the BBC's World at One programme: “The party and more importantly the country would be better off under new leadership.”

Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden resigned in the wake of the by-election defeats, and Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said Boris Johnson needs to “look in the mirror” and ask himself whether he should stay in office.

“Each and every day the Prime Minister gets up, like any leader, they have to look in the mirror and ask themselves ‘can they continue to deliver for their country and for the people who have put them into office?’

“I presume that’s getting far more challenging when the Prime Minister looked in the mirror these days with the messages that are coming from the ballot box such as by-elections we had last night.”