Complex sentence: Cooper is currently Shadow Home Secretary and also Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities and was elected as the representative for the Pontefract and Castleford constituency at the 1997 General Election, succeeding the Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, Geoff Lofthouse, who had retired.
Split into simpler sentences: Cooper is currently Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities. She was elected MP for the Pontefract and Castleford constituency at the 1997 General Election succeeding the Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, Geoff Lofthouse, who had retired.