Newsnight

Two senior Labour backbenchers are calling for a secret ballot on Gordon Brown's leadership. Ex-cabinet ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon have emailed Labour MPs calling for the leadership issue to be sorted out 'once and for all'. The team will be trying to answer the questions behind the plot against the PM. Then we speak to the Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, and then we have the first UK interview with Iceland's President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson who on Tuesday 5th January vetoed a bill that would reimburse the UK and Netherlands for bailing out depositors of a failing Icelandic bank.