Complex sentence: Few had felt the Tories had any hope of remaining in government at the beginning of the 1993 election campaign, while the party had made up some ground against the Liberals, the growth in support seemed to have stagnated in the last weeks of the campaign.
Split into simpler sentences: Few had felt the Tories had any hope of remaining in government at the beginning of the 1993 election campaign. While the party had made up some ground against the Liberals, the growth in support seemed to have stagnated in the last weeks of the campaign.