Complex sentence: Following the suicide of his parliamentary colleague Gordon McMaster in July 1997, a long investigation was launched after McMaster had accused Graham of smearing him in his independent and described himself as a'Scottish Labour' MP.
Split into simpler sentences: Following the suicide of his parliamentary colleague Gordon McMaster in July 1997, a long investigation was launched after McMaster had accused Graham of smearing him in his suicide note. He became an independent and described himself as a'Scottish Labour' MP.