55 Tufton Street

55 Tufton Street
55 Tufton Street
General information
Address	55 Tufton Street, Westminster, London SW1P 3QL
Town or city	London
Country	United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°29′47″N 0°07′42″W / 51.4963°N 0.1284°W

55 Tufton Street is a four-storey Georgian-era townhouse on historic Tufton Street, in Westminster, London, owned by businessman Richard Smith.^[1] Since the 2010s the building has hosted a network of libertarian lobby groups and think tanks related to pro-Brexit, climate science denial and other fossil-fuel lobby groups.^[2] Some of the organisations it houses have close connections with those at 57 Tufton Street next door, including the Centre for Policy Studies and CapX.^[2]

A group of these lobbying organisations used the building for biweekly meetings to coordinate policy and public messages.^[1]^[3] The nine lobby groups—the TaxPayers' Alliance, the office of Peter Whittle (a former deputy leader of UKIP), Civitas, the Adam Smith Institute, Leave Means Leave, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (the UK's principal climate change denial group), BrexitCentral, the Centre for Policy Studies and the Institute of Economic Affairs—were accused by former Vote Leave employee Shahmir Sanni of using the meetings to "agree on a single set of right-wing talking points" and "securing more exposure to the public".^[4]

This network has been linked to major US funders of climate-change denial and right-wing political causes including the Koch brothers and Robert Mercer, and to populist far-right parties in Europe, such as the Sweden Democrats and the Brothers of Italy.^[5]^[6]

^ ^a ^b Bawden, Tom (10 February 2016). "The address where Eurosceptics and climate change sceptics rub shoulders". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 11 February 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference Mandel 2021 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Ramsay, Adam; Geoghegan, Peter (31 July 2018). "Revealed: how the UK's powerful right-wing think tanks and Conservative MPs work together". openDemocracy. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
^ Farand, Chloe (23 June 2018). "Mapped: Whistleblower Accuses Nine Organisations of Colluding over Hard Brexit". DeSmog UK. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
^ Ahmed, Nafeez (20 June 2019). "How US climate deniers are working with far-right racists to hijack Brexit for Big Oil". Le Monde diplomatique. Paris.
^ Hope, Mat; Farand, Chloe (7 June 2019). "DeSmog's Pro-Brexit Climate Science Denier Map — A User's Guide". DeSmog. Retrieved 9 June 2023.