Thank you for your help Mece

I finally got it working by removing the "ui" from self.ui.setAttribute(Qt.WA_Maemo5PortraitOrientati on, True), so it now reads self.setAttribute.......

One thing that kinda irritates me is that when I minimize the application window, to see the multitasking view, it goes back into trying to display the form in landscape view so it looks wrong in the small preview pane. Once I click on it again, it expands and goes back into portrait. Is this normal behaviour?