Complex sentence: In the 2010 general election, he was the Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn, losing by 42 votes to the Labour's sitting MP Glenda Jackson and increasing the Conservatve vote share of the vote by nearly 10 percentage points compared to the previous election.
Split into simpler sentences: In the 2010 general election, he was the Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn, losing by 42 votes to the Labour's sitting MP Glenda Jackson. Philp grew the Conservatve vote share of the vote by nearly 10 percentage points compared to the previous election.