Peter Doig (politician)
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Peter Muir Doig (27 October 1911 – 31 October 1996) was a British Labour Party politician.
Doig was educated at Blackness School, Dundee, before taking evening classes. He later became a sales supervisor. He joined the Labour Party in 1930. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force.[1] He was elected a Dundee town councillor for ten years, serving as honorary town treasurer.
Doig contested Aberdeen South in 1959. He was Member of Parliament for Dundee West from a 1963 by-election to 1979, preceding Ernie Ross. On 22 September 1963, Doig was chosen ahead of five other people to be the Labour Party candidate in the by-election. At the time he was a bakery supervisor and chairman of the Labour group on Dundee Town Council. He was also deputy chairman of the council.[2]
In 1966 Doig was recorded as a member of the Transport and General Workers Union and the Co-operative Society. He was married with two sons.[1]
In the 1970s Doig was one of a small number of Labour MPs who supported the restoration of capital punishment, and was reported to favour a "hard line" approach towards crime. In 1979, when chairing the Scottish Standing Committee of MPs he used his casting vote to support a Conservative proposal to give police in Scotland wider powers to search for offensive weapons.[3]
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- Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974
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External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Peter Doig
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- 1911 births
- 1996 deaths
- Scottish Labour MPs
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
- Scottish Labour councillors
- UK MPs 1959–1964
- UK MPs 1964–1966
- UK MPs 1966–1970
- UK MPs 1970–1974
- UK MPs 1974
- UK MPs 1974–1979
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Dundee constituencies
- Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
- Councillors in Dundee