remit

Guaranteeing construction loans to big home builders is beyond their remit, and subsidizing borrowers to buy new homes would likely push up home prices.

This is the heart of his argument: a court completely divorced from the political will of the British people is now making the UK do things that are far beyond its original remit.

The government has said the new ethics commission would "have an ambitious remit to uphold the highest ethical standards across the public sector".

Critics say this stretches the court's remit into policing and politics; supporters call it a model for the digital age.

Lord Murphy said that while those who oppose the Windsor Framework would have liked him to have had a wider remit, he was "constrained by the terms of reference of this review".