By James Silver Rachel Reeves pledged an “initial injection” of funding into public services should her Labour party take power in the next election, despite the perilous state of the public finances. The Shadow Chancellor told the BBC that “the (fiscal) inheritance that a Labour government would have if we do win the next election will be the worst since the Second World War.” An election is expected in the second half of this year. The country is running a debt burden of just shy of 100 per cent of annual GDP. Despite that however she pledged to spend on public services, with public dissatis…