Rishi Sunak is officially Britain's new prime minister. The 42-year-old became the country's 57th prime minister and third prime minister this year, after being invited to form a government by King Charles.


In a speech outside Downing Street, Sunak said that the U.K. is facing a profound economic crisis, and that he has been chosen to fix the mistakes of his predecessor Liz Truss. In her own farewell speech, Truss defended her legacy, saying leaders needed to be bold.


Attention is now turning to the country's new leader, who broke through an ethnocultural ceiling to be the first British-South Asian prime minister.

Having studied finance and married into one of India’s wealthiest families, who is this youngest prime minister since 1812 — and what will be his legacy? Global’s Eric Sorensen has more.

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