So I pored over his files, tens of thousands of them.

There was also frustration in the country over what was seen as struggles to deliver on big promises - an agenda that was "overfilled, overstuffed", said Mr Wells - and his handling of files like immigration.

This is because the archive is comprised of files from the Special Jurisdiction, which from 1944 investigated suspected collaborators.

In 2011, Al Jazeera's publication of the so-called Palestine Papers, a leak of confidential files detailing years of negotiations between Israel and Palestinian teams, embarrassed PA officials who accused the network of distortion.

The files show that Kate Gross, one of the private secretaries at No 10, wrote to the prime minister on 2 July 2004.