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”.

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Emergency services were called to London’s Palace of Westminster on Saturday after a man carrying a Palestinian flag scaled the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known as “Big Ben.”