Stephen John Doughty is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff South and Penarth since 2012. He has been the Shadow Minister for Africa and a Shadow Minister for International Development since 2020. In the parliamentary by-election on 15 November 2012, Doughty was voted in as the Labour MP for Cardiff South and Penarth. He took the seat with a majority of 5,334, taking 47.3% of the vote. This enhanced Labour's majority in the area, which previously stood at 4,709. Doughty made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 28 November 2012. In January 2013, Doughty was appointed to the Labour Shadow Treasury team as an aide to Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Following Iain Wright's election as the Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Select Committee chair, Doughty succeeded him in the Shadow BIS team as the Shadow Minister for Trade and Industry in a June 2015 mini-reshuffle. In October 2015, he was moved to a position as a Shadow Foreign Office Minister with responsibility for Africa, South Asia and International Organisations, under Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn. In December 2015 Doughty supported air strikes against Syria, a decision for which he was criticized by many of his constituents and political activists via social media. He called the police to deal with the 'personal threats' he had received. He supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour Party leadership election. Doughty endorsed Keir Starmer in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election.