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Nigel Farage insists he only found out on Wednesday about Reform UK councillor George Madgwick being charged with 12 counts of rape and says he was "very shocked" by the allegations. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I found out yesterday about George Badgwick. I found out yesterday we had a problem with somebody, a councillor, in
00:07a senior position in Hampshire. I was very shocked. Shocked I hadn't heard before. Not shocked for the huge media
00:14coverage. Had he been a Conservative or Labour, you wouldn't be asking him that question.
00:19And what about the vetting, though? You can't vet people. You can't vet people for something the police might be
00:26investigating. That's literally impossible. And by the way, I mean, you know, we've got a Labour MP been arrested twice
00:32for serious potential crimes against children. We have a ex Tory councillor, which is the equivalent of the Pelico case
00:40in France. And look, I'm perfectly happy, not happy, unhappy, but prepared to answer questions about wrong ones that we
00:47may or may not have.
00:48within our party. But there's no equality in this. There's no equality in this across the media of any kind
00:54at all.

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