Meet King Charles III at Buckingham Palace, Rishi Sunak Britain's 57th Prime Minister

Perdana Menteri Inggris Rishi Sunak. (Wikimedia Commons/HM Treasury)

JAKARTA - Rishi Sunak has officially become the 57th Prime Minister of Britain, replacing Liz Truss after meeting King Charles III on Tuesday.

King Charles III raised Sunak at Buckingham Palace, London, the moment of the first handover of power since ascending to replace his mother Queen Elizabeth II who died last September.

Sunak, 42, was invited to form a government after winning the Conservative Party leadership on Monday, reported The National News on October 25.

Meanwhile, the BBC's correspondent for the United Kingdom Sean Coughlan reports that the audience between King Charles III and the new prime minister, Rishi Sunak, marks the symbolic handover of power, as quoted by the BBC.

As previously reported, born in the UK on May 12, 1980, to a family of Indian descent, Sunak will become Britain's first Hindu prime minister and youngest for more than 200 years.

His family migrated to England in the 1960s, a time when many people from the former British colony arrived to help rebuild the country after the Second World War.

After graduating from Oxford University, he then went on to Stanford University, where he met his wife Akshata Murthy, whose father is Indian billionaire N. R. Narayana Murthy, founder of the giant Infosys Ltd.

Sunak first came to national attention when, at the age of 39, he became finance minister under PM Boris Johnson just as the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the UK, developing a furlough scheme to support millions through various lockdowns.