Complex sentence: Maxton became the ILP MP for Glasgow Bridgeton at the 1922 general election and was chairman of the ILP from 1926 to 1931, and from 1934 to 1939; he was generally seen as the symbol of the ILP after its break from Labour in 1932.
Split into simpler sentences: Maxton became the ILP MP for Glasgow Bridgeton at the 1922 general election. Maxton was chairman of the ILP from 1926 to 1931, and from 1934 to 1939; he was generally seen as the symbol of the ILP after its break from Labour in 1932.