Gordon Rayner at Mail on Sunday.
David Blunkett, the architect of the controversial identity card scheme, has landed a job with a U.S. firm which bids for ID contracts.
The former home secretary is working for Entrust, which provides the software for the company running Spain's national identity card system.
His job is to advise on "government relations" but Entrust insists he will not be lobbying the Home Office once the bidding process for ID cards begins here.
The anti-ID card pressure group NO2ID described Mr Blunkett's job as "distasteful", warning he might "recycle" his ID card ideas in other EU countries.
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: "We can't have a situation where a high-profile former minister, particularly one who was so involved in the ID card scheme, is employed by a company looking for lucrative Government contracts."
Mr Blunkett's last company directorship, with DNA Bioscience, led to his resignation from his post as work and pensions minister in November 2005 after it emerged he failed to clear the job with the advisory committee on business appointments.
(ED: What a good job Blunkett and his mates are not Tories because that would mean he was sleazy.)
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