diff --git a/MantidPlot/src/Mantid/MantidApplication.cpp b/MantidPlot/src/Mantid/MantidApplication.cpp
index 8458496b85d51ff672195dcc1bf94cc10bc2ed4e..028dbb3baea8081a5c47fe8ee691728a6e62abc2 100644
--- a/MantidPlot/src/Mantid/MantidApplication.cpp
+++ b/MantidPlot/src/Mantid/MantidApplication.cpp
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ bool MantidApplication::notify(QObject *receiver, QEvent *event) {
                        "ErrorReporterPresenter"
                        "\nfrom ErrorReporter.errorreport import CrashReportPage"
                        "\npage = CrashReportPage(show_continue_terminate=True)"
-                       "\npresenter = ErrorReporterPresenter(page, '')");
+                       "\npresenter = ErrorReporterPresenter(page, '')"
+                       "\npresenter.show_view()");
 
     emit runAsPythonScript(pythonCode);
   } else if (error) {