Labour peer, Baroness Helena Kennedy told Daybreak that she found the military element to Margaret Thatcher's funeral "unattractive", she said she would have preferred a much smaller affair.
"This kind of public ritual is in some ways replacing other things that have been lost and in some ways I think that is what this is about", she added.
The Government's household benefit cap will be rolled out in parts of London today.
The welfare reforms will begin in the four boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Enfield and Haringey.
Speaking to Daybreak, David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham said:
I think this is brutally unfair to families, these are often women with three or more children and they now face eviction, hardship, the loss of over £100 a week for many of them, for no fault of their own.
The former culture secretary Tessa Jowell, who is MP for the neighbouring constituency of Dulwich, has condemned the anti-Thatcher celebrations in Brixton and elsewhere in the UK as "disrepectful":
Democracy must always embrace legitimate dissent but the action in Brixton and elsewhere is disrespectful and completely out of order
From @jowellt on Twitter:A spokesman for Chuka Ummuna has apologised if "lighthearted" comments the shadow minister made in 2006 caused offence.
The spokesman told the Daily Mail: "Though his user account on the site still exists, he has not posted a thread on the site for many years, since long before he was elected as a Member of Parliament."
"In terms of the post from 2006, these were comments made on a private social network well over half a decade ago.
"Though light-hearted in tone and context, and made long before he became an MP, Chuka accepts the choice of words used were not appropriate and apologises if any offence may have been caused."
– Yvette Cooper, Shadow home secretaryThis is an extremely serious and disappointing judgment which rips apart Theresa May's strategy for deporting Abu Qatada and contradicts her repeated assurances to Parliament that her approach would get him swiftly on to a plane.
According to security experts, the Home Secretary and the courts, this is an extremely dangerous man, and we all want him to be deported to stand fair trial abroad as soon as possible and to be held in custody in the meantime.
Slough MP Fiona Mactaggart has donated £14,268 to Comic Relief after thousands of people retweeted her post on social networking site Twitter.
The Labour politician told her followers on Friday that she would donate £1.00 to the Red Nose Day appeal for every retweet the post received by 9pm.
"You have to stick by your word if you take a risk like that," she told ITV London.
Read: More on Labour MP Fiona Mactaggart's donation to Comic Relief.
The new Croydon North MP Steve Reed took his seat in the Commons.
The polls was sparked after the deaths of long-serving incumbent Malcolm Wicks.
Steve Reed took his oath of allegiance backed by his new colleagues in the Commons chamber.
He is expected to make his maiden speech in the coming weeks.
Labour leader Ed Milliband has told transport workers it would be unacceptable to strike during the Games.
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Labour leader Ed Miliband and the rest of the shadow cabinet have arrived at the Olympic park.
They will hold a meeting later in the aquatics centre.
The shadow cabinet will meet at the Olympic Park later. Labour leader Ed Miliband and his team are taking their meeting out of the office and into the Aquatics Centre.
