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There was much jollity at the House of Commons today as MPs gathered for the first time since the general election, particularly when the newly re-elected Speaker John Bercow called the prime minister to speak and there was a brief pause - before MPs told David Cameron: "That's you!"

But away from the chamber, the government is facing a test after a special immigration court ruled that the alleged leader of an al-Qaeda plot to bomb targets in north west England should not be deported home to Pakistan because he faces torture or death there.

The government's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Carlile, said the Human Rights Act prevented Abid Naseer's return and called for ministers to find a new way of dealing with suspects.

Given that when they were in opposition Conservatives opposed the Human Rights Act and the Lib Dems opposed control orders restricting suspects' movements what will that response be? Richard Watson reports.

We will report on a story touched on in Jeremy's interview with David Laws last night - an alleged "spending spree" by Labour ministers in the dying days of their tenure, a story previously dismissed by former ministers as coalition "spin".

The BBC has learned that a number of Whitehall's most senior civil service chiefs lodged formal protests at decisions being made by ministers, demanding written - and soon to be published - instructions from their political masters.

We will also be looking at whether middle and upper middle income workers are going to suffer most under the new coalition - totting up the cost of a scaling back of child tax credits, of rising tuition fees and no cut in inheritance tax against the backdrop of a rising cost of living.

Plus, 10 years ago, Allan Little reported on the civil war that tore Sierra Leone apart and the British military intervention that stopped it.

Now he returns to look at the story behind that military action and its legacy for Sierra Leone and for Britain.

Join Jeremy at 10.30pm on Two.