Ian Powell: The return of 'Angry Andy', the Health Minister who is denying the obvious

When he was elected leader of the Labour Party following the 2014 election defeat, the National Party in government detected something in Andrew Little’s personality, leading him to be nicknamed “Angry Andy”.

At the time I thought this was a bit off and, at best, of limited alliterative appeal.

But if “Angry Andy” was a bit off then, it is certainly applicable today as Little, now Health Minister, continues to deny the obvious: that there is a crisis in the health system.

In his incomprehensible denial, Little failed to grasp a fundamental truism.