Day spent more than 16 hours barefoot and holding a Palestine flag while perched on the clock tower of Big Ben, before being lifted to the ground in a cherry picker. In a video posted on Instagram on Saturday evening, the man told negotiators from the ledge he was sat on that he would come down “on his own terms”.

Daniel Day, 29, has been charged with causing a public nuisance and trespassing on a protected site after climbing onto the clock tower.

Emergency services have been called to the Palace of Westminster after a man holding a Palestinian flag climbed up Big Ben tower