When polls dissect his image, his strengths are his energy, courage, dynamism and determination.

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Those reversals were particularly damaging to his outsider image as non-politicians like Trump, Carson and Carly Fiorina climbed the polls.

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Worried by opinion polls suggesting that foreigners regard Britain as backward-looking, and keen to burnish its image for dynamism, the Blair government is intent on presenting Britain as a modern, thrusting type of nation.

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