Back to the White House
If Donald Trump wins on 6 November, he will be the first US President to serve two separated terms since Grover Cleveland, who was president between 1885-89 and 1893-97. Cleveland actually won a higher share of the popular vote in the 1888 election, but lost to Benjamin Harrison in the electoral college after an election fought on the issue of trade tariffs. Cleveland’s wife Frances was confident she would return to the White House, reputedly telling her staff to keep things in good order for when they return four years to the day. So it proved – Cleveland won the 1892 election easily.
Close calls
The closest US elections in terms of margins in the electoral college:
1876 Rutherford Hayes 185, Samuel Tilden 184
1796 John Adams 71, Thomas Jefferson 68
2000 George W. Bush 271, Al Gore 266
1800 Thomas Jefferson 73, John Adams 65
1824 John Quincy Adams 84,
Andrew Jackson 99 (Quincy Adams became president because no candidate had an absolute majority and so the House of Representatives decided the issue.)
The right to buy
Angela Rayner is to constrict the right to buy by lowering discounts and increasing the period in which tenants must live in a property before they qualify.
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