Peter Doig (politician)

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 has casting vote to support a Conservative proposal to give police in Scotland wider powers to search for offensive weapons.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Dod's Parliamentary Companion 1966. Epsom, Surrey: Business Dictionaries Ltd. 1966. p. 391.
  2. ↑ "LABOUR PARTY CHOICE FOR BY-ELECTION - Dundee City Treasurer". The Glasgow Herald. 23 September 1963. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  3. ↑ Trotter, Stuart (31 January 1979). "Casting vote storm over police powers". Glasgow Herald. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Strachey		 Member of Parliament for Dundee West
1963–1979 		Succeeded by
Ernie Ross
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