I am not prepared to look back at my time here in this Parliament, doing this job, and say to my children’s generation: I’m sorry, we knew there was a problem with sugary drinks, we knew it caused disease, but we ducked the difficult decisions and we did nothing.
George Osborne, U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, announcing a tax on sugary beverages, March 16, 2016
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