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They were not cut out for the job..
This lot had some rather limited work experience...
William Pulteney, the first Earl of Bath, was Prime Minister in 1746 for just “48 hours, three quarters, seven minutes and eleven seconds” until he realised he didn’t have the support to form a government. In 1757, James Waldegrave, the second Earl Waldegrave, stepped down from the job after just four days, fearing he’d clash with his friend, King George II. But neither of them managed to form successful governments, so the title officially goes to George Canning, who led a coalition of Tories and Whigs in 1827, but died of pneumonia 119 days after taking office. DONALD Trump fired his communications director Anthony Scaramucci after just 10 days.
The US President sacked the man known as The Mooch for insulting White
Conservatives. But his stint as Chief Secretary to the Treasury lasted just 17 days.
On May 28, 2010, it was revealed that Laws had claimed more than £40,000 in expenses for a second home, but he was House staff. It came hours after Trump boasted that his administration was running smoothly. But while 10 days is a brief tenure, it’s not the shortest-ever stint in a job.
Here, we list some of the briefest roles in history...
actually paying rent to his secret boyfriend.
Laws hadn’t declared the relationship because he hadn’t intended on coming out as gay. Lady Jane Grey ruled for just nine days. She was proclaimed queen on July 10, 1553 after the death of Henry VIII’S only son, Edward VI, who nominated his first cousin once removed as his successor. Edward was a Protestant, and didn’t want his Roman Catholic half-sister Mary taking the crown.
But Lady Jane was deposed by Mary less than a fortnight later, convicted of treason along with her husband and father, and sentenced to death. She was beheaded in the Tower of London in February 1554.
One candidate for this title has to be Emma Hulse, who claims she was fired after just five minutes into her job as a TV worker earlier this year – for being too good-looking.
The 24-year-old says she was sent home within moments of arriving for a shift at Unit TV in Soho, Central London, and told by her manager that she “should be on a catwalk”.
She said: “Maybe that company employs plain-looking people and maybe if you don’t look that way they don’t take you. Maybe I was a distraction.’
The firm dismissed the other employee who was allegedly involved in the incident.
While John Paul I’s 33-day tenure in 1978 resulted in the most recent Year of Three Popes, the first to occur since 1605, he is far from history’s shortestserving Pope.
In fact, 10 previous pontiffs were in the position for the same time or less.
The shortest-ever was Pope Urban VII’S reign, which lasted for just 13 days, until his death from malaria in 1590.
Leo XI was elected in 1605 aged 69, before dying within a month. He is known as Papa Lampo, or Lightning Pope, because his papacy was so short.
John Paul I holds the title for briefest reign since 1605.
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