Complex sentence: Conway lost his Shrewsbury and Atcham seat at the 1997 General Election to Labour's Paul Marsden by 1,670 votes, after his defeat he became the chief executive at the Cats Protection charity.
Split into simpler sentences: Conway lost his Shrewsbury and Atcham seat at the 1997 General Election to Labour's Paul Marsden by 1,670 votes. After his defeat he became the chief executive at the Cats Protection charity.