EE Port of CE!18422

What does this MR do?

Fix a minor UX regression in the "New MR Request" screen

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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

• Changelog entry added, if necessary
• Documentation created/updated
• API support added
• Tests added for this feature/bug
• Review
  • Has been reviewed by UX
  • Has been reviewed by Frontend
  • Has been reviewed by Backend
  • Has been reviewed by Database
• Conform by the merge request performance guides
• Conform by the style guides
• Squashed related commits together
• Internationalization required/considered
• End-to-end tests pass (package-and-qa manual pipeline job)

What are the relevant issue numbers?

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/45446