[MargaretR]

I do not think that the appointment of police commissioners was in the tory mandate presented to us at the general election.

Mandate (politics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The concept of a government having a legitimate mandate to govern via the fair winning of a democratic election is a central idea of democracy. New governments who attempt to introduce policies that they did not make public during an election campaign are said to not have a legitimate mandate to implement such policies."