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Many barriers would stand in the way if he decided to chart that course, not least the selection process to stand for a vacant seat.

With the presidency vacant, a power struggle ensued.

Then there’s the University of California, which announced in 2016 that it would lay off 49 career IT staffers and eliminate 48 other IT jobs that were vacant or filled by contract employees.

I don’t know how he got that look of vacant desperation in his eyes, but it’s chilling.”

But with more than a third of the 19 retail properties currently vacant, £50,000 is spent on bills due to empty shops and unused flats above them.