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.
[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.
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