Blair ‘steers return to Thatcher attitudes’: To the Scottish Socialist party the findings were vindication of their own campaigns, summed up by the election poster that showed the face of Margaret Thatcher "morphing" into Tony Blair. Eddie Truman, the party's spokesman, said: "This is something we have always said Tony Blair has been more successful at Thatcherism than Thatcher. "We are conscious of the fact that there are people who voted him in and still vote Labour with their first vote and SSP with their second. That will change. Time is running out for Blair and New Labour as people realise it is the same policies with different faces promoting them."
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