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David Cameron has chaired his new cabinet's first meeting at Number 10, a meeting which saw both sides of the coalition coming together with a "sense of common purpose," according to Education Secretary Michael Gove.

But while Mr Gove may be talking of unity the newly formed coalition government is facing a possible rebellion over controversial plans to raise the threshold for a successful no confidence vote to 55% of MPs.

Such a plan would be a radical shift from the current system under which MPs need a simple majority of one to force a dissolution of government.

Tonight, David Grossman will be reporting on that, as well as the Cabinet meeting and the appointment of other ministers to the government today.

Liz MacKean will report on what kind of welfare shake-up the government could be planning when they begin their programme of public spending cuts.

We have a film from Pakistan by reporter Owen Bennett-Jones looking at how the growth of the Taliban is being driven by economic inequality in the country.

Plus, oil company BP PLC has announced today that its costs for fighting a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have risen by $100m in three days, to a current total of about $450m.

We will be looking at growing anger among American politicians over the spill and spiralling clean up costs, especially in light of a report by US Congressional investigators that the device meant to stop oil leaking after last month's explosion was faulty, and that such safety equipment on tens of thousands of US offshore rigs are barely regulated.

Join Gavin at 10.30pm on BBC Two.