Sunak will become the country's first black prime minister.

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will become the country's first black prime minister.

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Just seven weeks after losing to Liz Truss for the position of finance minister,

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Rishi Sunak made a political comeback on Monday by being chosen as prime minister by Britain's ruling Conservative Party.

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He was given symbolic approval to assume the position of prime minister during a ceremony

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Sunak is the third British prime minister in less than two months and the fifth in the past six years.

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He is the first prime minister of Hindu heritage,

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A person of South Asian descent, and a person of color in Britain. He is the modern era's youngest prime minister.

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