Chop and change midfield if you like, but keep your back four and goalkeeper together.

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Where Mr Bush sketches in broad preferences, Mr Hague has seemed to chop and change.

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Rather than chop and change ministerial posts with disruptive frequency, Mr Cameron has yet to hold a sweeping reshuffle.

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David Frost, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said it was "a necessary and long overdue response to the relentless chop and change of tax law".

BBC: Tax system 'to be simplified to encourage investment'