Gabriel Attal, nicknamed ‘baby Macron’, becomes youngest ever French prime minister at 34 – as it happened
by Lili Bayer in Brussels from World news | The Guardian on (#6HPWG)
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Congratulations are starting to pour in for Gabriel Attal, the youngest prime minister of France's Fifth Republic.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has appointed the country's 34-year old education minister, Gabriel Attal, as prime minister, French media outlets reported. He is the youngest French PM in modern history and will succeed Elisabeth Borne, who resigned yesterday.
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