Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has said he will not be among the mourners at Baroness Thatcher's funeral.
Lord Kinnock, who earlier this week said Lady Thatcher's policies had wreaked "devastation" on the UK, will be attending a funeral in Wales on Wednesday.
A number of other senior Labour figures are expected to attend including leader Ed Miliband and former prime ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. Lord Heseltine, who forced Lady Thatcher out of office in 1990, will attend. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been snubbed, although the country's ambassador to the UK had been invited. The more than 2000 guests invited range from Bill Clinton and former South African president FW de Klerk to Jeremy Clarkson and actress June Whitfield. But ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Nancy Reagan are too ill.
The list has been compiled by Lady Thatcher's family, with help from the Government and the Conservative Party.
Other confirmed guests include Sir John Major, Cherie Blair, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and novelist and former Tory politician Lord Jeffrey Archer.
Showbiz guests include Dame Shirley Bassey, Lord Lloyd-Webber and Sir Terry Wogan. But it is understood comedian Jim Davidson, a prominent Tory supporter in the 1980s, has not been asked.
A spokesman for Lord Kinnock's office said: "He will not be attending because a councillor in his old constituency died a few days before Lady Thatcher. He will be in Wales."
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