| Friday 8 October 2010 at 10.30pm on BBC Two Presented by Gavin Esler Tonight we investigate the background of Abdul Jabbar, the British terrorist suspect killed last month in a drone attack in Pakistan, who Newsnight learnt earlier this week was being groomed to head an al-Qaeda splinter group in the UK. Also tonight - in a surprise move by the new Labour leader Ed Miliband, Alan Johnson, a former postman and union boss who climbed to the top ranks of Labour government, has been named shadow chancellor. Ed Balls, who had been widely tipped for the Treasury brief, will be home secretary, while his wife Yvette Cooper, who topped the shadow cabinet poll of MPs, is named as shadow foreign secretary. "My team is united in one central mission for the future - to win back the trust of the British people and take Labour back to power," Mr Miliband said as the announced his selection, a line-up which he said was "drawn from a broad range of talents". Tonight, Michael Crick will be assessing Mr Miliband's choices for the front bench, and we'll be asking one of the members of the new Shadow Cabinet what today's announcement tell us about the direction Mr Miliband plans to take his party in. And Stephen Smith is back in Hastings for the latest in his Big Society series. This week he sees first hand the effects of the fire which has devastated the 138-year-old pier and speaks to the man credited with coming up with the Conservatives' Big Society plan, Lord Wei. You can read more about Stephen's report here. Join Gavin at 10.30pm on BBC Two. | 
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