Police had cordoned off an area in the central London political district of Whitehall near the Parliament to access a suspicious package. According to the latest update, they have removed the package and made it safe.
Around 4 p.m. this day, police were called over reports of a man trying to scale Big Ben, MPS Westminster tweeted. The man turned out to be a 43-year-old Extinction Rebellion protester apparently dressed up like PM Boris Johnson, as he was wearing a blond wig.