Philip Glanville is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who served as the directly elected mayor of Hackney in London.

[8] Glanville has lobbied to introduce 'curfews' for new nightlife venues, to manage the impact of late-night opening on local communities.

Glanville had previously claimed to have had no further contact with Dewey following the Council being notified of his arrest shortly after the 2022 local elections.

[10][11][12] On the 16 September 2023, following condemnation from the local Green Party as well as from residents, Glanville resigned citing an "error in judgment" for trusting Dewey.

[13] He became civilly partnered to his husband Giles McCrary III, a native of Texas, in February 2011 and then was one of the first in the United Kingdom to convert his civil partnership into marriage at a midnight ceremony on 10 December 2014.