Question: What is the name of the politician who preceded Robert Jenrick and needed to resign twice?
Sentence (from "Patrick Mercer"): He was elected as a Conservative in the 2001 general election, until resigning the party's parliamentary whip in May 2013 following questions surrounding paid advocacy, and was an Independent MP representing the constituency of Newark in Parliament until his resignation at the end of April 2014 after the Standards Committee suspended him for six months for "sustained and pervasive breach of the house's rules".
Relevant evidence: Yes