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By Stefan Boscia Kwasi Kwarteng will travel to Washington, DC this week to meet with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the first time as chancellor. Kwarteng is travelling to the US for the IMF’s annual meeting, the first of its kind in-person since Covid, where he is expected to meet with its managing director Kristalina Georgieva. He will have to defend the £43bn in tax cuts in the government’s mini-Budget, which were funded by government borrowing. The chancellor’s meeting with IMF bosses, comes after the institution criticised his recent mini-Budget after its release and advised a …