"He's a hard businessman, and we know his rhetoric, and that rhetoric is something we have gotten used to since 2019, and it's just a matter of talking to a peer, an ally, on how we can solve things here in the Arctic and also in Nato."
Closures will begin at 20:00 GMT, running overnight until 05:00, and continue on Tuesday and Thursday.Temporary stop signs were installed on the slip roads at the junction in September
The new road markings include double white centre lines, road studs and "SLOW" markings across 500m (0.3 miles) of road.Westmorland and Furness Council said further safety improvements were planned.Peter Thornton, cabinet member for highways, said the stretch of road had seen a "number of serious collisions" and the local authority and National Highways were working together to "urgently address" the issue.
An MP has again urged the government to provide emergency funding to reopen two bridges which have now been closed for more than six months.Underbarrow and Brigsteer bridges, over the A591 near Kendal, in Cumbria, were closed by Westmorland and Furness Council in June as a precautionary measure after an external expert report found "structural concerns".
In Parliament, Tim Farron, the MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, called on the Secretary of State for Transport, Heidi Alexander, to meet local authority representatives as a "matter of urgency".
Alexander said she would ask the Minister for Future Roads, Lilian Greenwood, to discuss the matter with councillors.“We will write to people immediately to explain the plans are quite likely to change so we don't know whether their properties are definitely going to be demolished or remodelled at all.
“It will take us some time to confirm that and I am afraid it is just inevitable, there is no point giving people a message that we are not 100% sure of ourselves.“At the same time, we really recognise that we need to try to get some certainty for residents as quickly as possible."
The deputy prime minister has told the BBC she wants the government's Right to Buy housing scheme to continue but that it needed to be "fairer" to the taxpayer.Angela Rayner insisted she was committed to keeping it, as it was important that social tenants were able to buy the homes they had lived in for a long time.