LONDON (AP) — Rishi Sunak has become Britain’s third prime minister this year. He is tasked with taming an economic crisis that has left the country’s finances in a precarious state and millions struggling to pay their food and energy bills. Sunak is the U.K.’s first leader of color. He met King Charles III at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, and the monarch officially asked the new leader of the governing Conservative Party to form a government. Sunak clinched the leadership position Monday. He is seen by his party as a safe pair of hands. The party hopes he will stabilize an economy sliding toward recession and stem its own plunging popularity. That’s after the brief, disastrous term of Liz Truss.
Sunak takes over as UK prime minister amid economic crisis
