Gordon Brown (Pic:Getty Images)
Gordon Brown will this week read the riot act to rebellious ministers and Labour MPs.
The PM - who met ex-US President Bill Clinton at a world prosperity conference in Watford yesterday - will also give a dressing-down to Chief Whip Geoff Hoon.
Mr Hoon, who is in charge of enforcing party discipline, is under fire for letting the troops run amok.
Mr Brown feels he failed to spot and crush early signs of a revolt over drink taxes and low-rate income tax after Chancellor Alistair Darling's Budget.
Now the Prime Minister will warn Mr Hoon and senior Government ministers that he will not tolerate any more public dissent which could undermine Labour chances in the run-up to crucial local council elections on May 1.
Anyone who steps out of line will be sacked in a Cabinet reshuffle, ministerial sources have revealed. However, Mr Brown last week failed to discipline two Government ministers who broke ranks and fuelled Tory claims of splits.
Licensing minister Gerry Sutcliffe condemned the 4p tax hike on a pint of beer, and health minister Ivan Lewis suggested the PM was out of touch, but both kept their jobs. Allies of Mr Hoon insist he can't be expected to enforce discipline on controversial issues if ministers are allowed to defy the party line.
Mr Brown was "too preoccupied" with a NATO summit in Bucharest to take action against Labour rebels last week, Number 10 sources said. But one senior official said: "That is about to change. Gordon is in no mood to live and let live. Ministers will quickly realise that disloyalty will be swiftly punished."
Mr Brown will also instruct whips to stamp down hard on opponents of legislation to allow human-animal hybrid embryos for medical research.
Roman Catholics will be allowed to abstain on the hybrid clause but will have to back the legislation in its final stages or resign.
The Government is also facing further revolts over council house building and nuclear power.
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