A man has been arrested after scaling Big Ben's Elizabeth Tower at the Palace of Westminster in central London. Emergency services were called at 07:24 GMT on Saturday to reports of a protester who had climbed up the tower holding a Palestinian flag. The barefoot man reached a ledge several metres up the tower and refused to leave.

The man scaled the U.K. building on March 8 and refused to come down, putting traffic in the area at a standstill and prompting negotiators to reach him via crane

A man has been charged with tresspassing after climbing Elizabeth Tower housing Big Ben. Footage was widely shared online of the individual perched on the Palace of Westminster on Saturday. Now, police have charged Daniel Day,