diff --git a/IPython/qt/console/ipython_widget.py b/IPython/qt/console/ipython_widget.py
index b93d86a..9ca180d 100644
--- a/IPython/qt/console/ipython_widget.py
+++ b/IPython/qt/console/ipython_widget.py
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ class IPythonWidget(FrontendWidget):
         self.exit_requested.emit(self)
 
     def _handle_payload_next_input(self, item):
-        self.input_buffer = dedent(item['text'].rstrip())
+        self.input_buffer = item['text']
 
     def _handle_payload_page(self, item):
         # Since the plain text widget supports only a very small subset of HTML