Sadly, many people are just too dependent on them to make a clean break.

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When I spoke to Harris for my original post, he told me he planned to make a clean break with the past.

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After two crushing defeats it is time to make a clean break.

BBC: David Davis statement in full

Johnson had a choice to stay with what was already there or make a clean break and go with something totally new in the way Geoff Cooke did with a young Will Carling.

BBC: Jeremy Guscott column