This root and branch reform of personal taxation has many attractions for those on the left.

We are screaming out for root and branch reform.

"What is needed now is comprehensive root and branch reform of the commission."

We need a root and branch reform now.

However, the Council knows that the ravages of recession will return without root and branch reform of the financial system.

Already there has been root and branch reform of government with many new ministerial positions and responsibilities.

So we can expect a root and branch reform of politics and the economy can we?

We need root and branch reform of the Structural Funds and we need clear guidance on what our aims are when spending the money.

Not piecemeal improvements, but root and branch reform is to be carried out, as you plausibly inform us Mr Prodi.

What we need is root and branch reform, national banks which create money for the government by decree so that the government does not owe interest, or capital either.

Mr Lamy, if negotiations must take place, then they must focus on a root and branch reform of the WTO.

My (modest) hope is that, if nothing else, The Literature Prize sponsors a root and branch reform of Booker by its highly intelligent Man Group partners.

We need root and branch reform of our democratic systems, locally, nationally, in Brussels and globally for the likes of the UN and also our financial systems.

I call for root and branch reform of the dispute settlement mechanism, which so far enabled private companies to take legal action against countries and sometimes attack their social and environmental law.

Enlargement, as well as the next round of WTO talks, require a root and branch reform of the common agricultural policy and a reduction in agricultural spending.

If the authorities are committed to a root and branch reform of our system of governance then they must first invest in our rural and urban areas and tackle corruption.

"We are carrying out a root and branch reform of the national curriculum to set out the essential academic knowledge that children need, while leaving schools free to decide how to teach it.

If there's to continue to be a country called 'Greece', and whether the country is in the single currency or out, that country desperately, desperately needs to implement root and branch reforms and quickly too.

Mr Barber then said he expected recommendations for root and branch reform of the Press Complaints Commission from its new chairman Lord Hunt to be published before the Leveson Inquiry reports its findings.

In reaction Hitler made a speech to the Reichstag on 26 April 1942 in which he sought and received full power to undertake a root and branch reform of the judiciary based on the Rothenberger principles.

Modern capitalism is in desperate need of global root and branch reform, but it is not going to happen unless and until all those billionaires realize that their gated communities and private armies won't save them from a global cataclysm.

It must be clear that a global and courageous reform is required in the country, so that these objectives can be achieved; a root and branch reform, so to speak, in several sectors, in particular with regard to the administrative capacity of Albania’s public administration.

Then Mr Blair socialised – the same Mr Blair who strode into Brussels in July promising root and branch reform, but then pruned it down to the most invisible square root of a branch of any EU Presidency in memory.