A British MP arrested after an alleged brawl in a parliamentary bar denied he was drunk at the time and hit out at false claims he was an alcoholic. Eric Joyce insisted he had consumed "by any standards a very modest amount" and criticised a decision by officials to bar him from drinking at parliament.
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He was arrested on suspicion of assault on Thursday after an altercation at the Sports and Social Club, apparently over taking a glass out to a smoking area. The former soldier has been released on bail. In a posting on his website, the MP said he was limited in his responses to reports about him as he wanted to "respect the police inquiry".
But in a series of points he sought to correct what he said were false reports about his health and general behaviour.
"I am not, and never have been, an alcoholic," he wrote.
"I did, briefly, go through an unhappy period where I drank heavily. That ended 12 months ago, overnight, with the dreadful incident in Strangers (a parliamentary bar) for which I still feel genuine remorsein respect of those affected. I have spent the past 12 months making a concerted effort to address the causes of that incident.
"I do not go into bars, nor drink in my office. Nor do I inject alcohol right into my eyeballs while crying. I was not drunk last Thursday. I had consumed, by any standards, a very modest amount of alcohol."
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