Labour is planning reforms to the UK’s land valuation system in a bid to ease the country’s housing crisis, reports the Financial Times. The proposals are part of Labour’s plans to ease the housing crisis and go “far beyond recent government moves to allow ministers to make landowners sell holdings more cheaply in limited cases”. It adds that housebuilding is “set to be a big theme in the next election”.

The front page also reports China is experiencing unusually hot weather, sweltering in 36.1C in Shanghai.