On 10 November 1999, Body put forward an Early Day Motion in support of the writer Robert Henderson, who believed that the security services had interfered with his mail and telephone line after he had written allegedly threatening letters to Prime Minister Tony Blair, his wife Cherie, and various Labour MPs. This followed an article by Henderson in "Wisden Cricket Monthly" in 1995 entitled "Is it in the blood?" which suggested that only "unequivocal Englishmen" should play cricket for England. Body's motion not only defended Henderson and accused Blair of interfering with Henderson's activities, but referred to "publicly reported incidents of racism within the Labour Party".