A Reform UK councillor has been charged with a string of criminal offences, including 12 counts of rape.

George Madgwick, a councillor on Hampshire County Council , has been charged with 35 offences, including 12 counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault, two counts of assault by penetration, two counts of making and one count of distributing indecent images of a child, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.

He was charged with another count of causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child and two counts of controlling and coercive behaviour.…