First pictures of Big Ben since row started over why MPs will not allow the Great Bell to sound on Brexit night

Big Ben sits silently in the draughty belfry hundreds of feet above Parliament in the scaffolding-clad Elizabeth Tower yesterday as the row over whether the Great Bell can sound to mark Brexit on Jan 31.

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