BBC chief political correspondent Norman Smith looks back at the major political news events of 2011.

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VIDEO: Norman Smith’s political review of 2011

The most important political news last week came from across the Atlantic, where the coalition government of British Prime Minister David Cameron ordered an austerity budget that radically reduces government spending on the welfare state. Both the policy and the political circumstances that brought…

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What America might learn from the British austerity model