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The Tories have been accused of creating ‘jobs for the boys’ after their Welsh party chair was handed a well-paid Government post after losing his parliamentary seat.

Byron Davies became the Government’s General Aviation Champion - a role which pays £350 a day after being defeated by Labour at the last election.

The lucrative post was not advertised and there appear to have been no other applicants.

The Government released details of the appointment in February announcing that they had created the post “help identify a network of UK aerodromes that are most important for non-scheduled flying to flourish”.

A Freedom of Information request revealed the post-holder can rake in more than £8,000 for just 2 days work a month.

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The official response from the Cabinet Office explained that the role did not need to be advertised.

It said “the appointment fell outside the formal appointment rules set out by Cabinet Office because it was a time limited one-off appointment” so it did not have to be advertised.

Mr Davies, lost his seat last summer in an upset by Labour’s Tonia Antoniazzi who turned the Tories’ 27-vote majority into a more than 3,000 vote lead.

He said on being appointed in February: “This is an exciting opportunity for general aviation and I’m delighted to have been asked to undertake this piece of work.”

Mr Davies is one of a number of defeated Tory MPs who have strolled into similar posts.

Gavin Barwell, who lost his Croydon Central seat became the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff and is understood to earn around £140,000 a year - according to figures from last December.

Stewart Jackson, who lost his Peterborough seat in the same poll, was chief of staff to David Davis - who resigned as Brexit Secretary after disagreeing with Theresa May about the Chequers deal.

Labour’s shadow cabinet secretary Jon Trickett said: “The Tories have torn up the rule book when it comes to public appointments. Normally you have to prove that you are best person for the job by openly competing with others following an advert.

“Now it seems they don’t bother advertising and the only qualification that matters is a Conservative party membership card in your purse or wallet.

“Using taxpayer money in a ‘jobs for the boys’ scam is totally unacceptable.”