Reform UK councillor charged with 12 counts of rape and multiple other offences

Charges against party’s leader on Hampshire county council, George Madgwick, linked to events alleged to have taken place in Portsmouth and Wales Reform UK’s leader on Hampshire county council has been charged with 12 counts of rape and one of distributing indecent images of a child.

George Madgwick, 37, who is a councillor in Portsmouth and leads the Reform group on the council, was a prominent voice linked to…