Boris Johnson will write to EU requesting article 50 extension, court told
Source: The Guardian
The UK government has promised a court that Boris Johnson will send the letter to the EU seeking an extension to article 50 as required by the Benn act.
The undertaking appears to directly contradict the prime minister’s statements that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October regardless, and unattributed claims from Downing Street that Johnson will find a way to sidestep the act.
The pledge has been given in legal papers submitted to the court of session in Edinburgh after anti-Brexit campaigners began a legal action to force Johnson to uphold the act’s requirements.
The act states that if Westminster does not agree to a Brexit deal by 19 October, the prime minister has to write to the EU seeking an extension to article 50 until 31 January.
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would be one reason. 
The other would be that an election will oust him, and delaying the deadline will create an opportunity for the UK to come to its senses. The EU would rather have the UK in, but if the UK leaves, they will be unmerciful. The UK will be made an example of in order to forestall any other countries with similar ideas (Italy comes to mind).
then dither and delay, BoJo style
Seriously tho, this is good news.
