Police have decided MP Eric Joyce will face no further action over an alleged brawl in a Commons bar earlier this month.
Mr Joyce was arrested on March 14 on suspicion of assault and actual bodily harm after a disturbance at a bar in the Palace of Westminster.
The MP went to a Belgravia police station in central London to answer bail on Thursday and was told he was not being charged.
Speaking to Sky News outside the station, he dismissed calls for him to stand down immediately and vowed to stay on until 2015.
"I was involved in the margins of the fracas and clearly it is the first time I had been back in a bar for over a year. That was a shame," he said.
"But the fact is the police have looked at it now for two weeks and there is to be no further action."
In a message for his Falkirk constituents, he promised he would "continue to be diligent and vigilant" in acting in their interests for the rest of this parliament.
The MP was held for around 20 hours after the row earlier this month, which was the second time in just over a year that he had been arrested in Parliament.
Police were called after an apparent fracas during a karaoke night at the Sports and Social Club bar in the House of Commons.
Witnesses said they saw him "wrestling" on the ground with two police officers.
Mr Joyce, 52, was banned from buying or being served alcohol from all parliamentary facilities after the latest arrest.
But he later denied being drunk, insisting he had only had a "modest amount of alcohol" and rejecting claims he was an alcoholic.
The MP, a former soldier, is now an Independent after resigning from the Labour Party following his earlier altercation in February 2012.
He admitted being "hammered" when he attacked Tory councillor Luke Mackenzie and Labour whip Phillip Wilson in a Commons bar.
The politician was fined and handed a 12-month community order as well as a curfew after admitting four counts of assault.
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