It should help participants to focus on common strategic issues, to choose an appropriate strategy and to achieve desired results.

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But Mr Paterson insisted it was still the government's intention to have a free vote "but we need to choose an appropriate moment".

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The second bit of good news is that Harriet Miers's withdrawal provided Mr Bush with an opportunity to choose a more appropriate candidate.

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