Member

Of course, it is the Secretary of State’s judgment about the public interest that counts here, so we need to be confident that his power to do so is appropriately constrained. As has been discussed, subsection (2) sets out some examples of when the public interest test may be met, but there is plenty of breadth even in those scenarios. Under paragraph (c), for example, the Secretary of State may decide to nationalise a steel undertaking when he considers doing so would support