Article: Boilermaker became a labour MP ; Former boilermaker John MacDougall rose from a working class background to take his seat at Westminster.

Former boilermaker John MacDougall rose from a working class background to take his seat at Westminster.

The MP for Glenrothes, who died yesterday aged 60, followed a well-trodden Old Labour path, through unions and the local political scene of the 60s and 70s.

Born on December 8, 1947, in Dunfermline, Fife, Mr MacDougall started work at the RGC oil rig construction yard at Methil, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland in 1964.

It was here he got his first taste of politics, becoming a shop steward of the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trade Union (GMBATU) in 1978.

He rose to became shop steward convener of the union and in this role visited Parliament for the first time, little ...

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