Will the 31 October Deadline Be Extended?

Boris Johnson continues to make the contradictory claims that he will abide by the law but the Article 50 deadline will not be extended.  He appears to get this past his supporters by hinting there is some plan of Baldrick-like cunning to evade Padfield to reconcile the two objectives.  As the Waugh report said last week:

"No.10 still have things up their sleeve to try to get out on October 31, yet as I wrote earlier this week there are some around Johnson who now reluctantly admit that he may be forced into an extension to Article 50, as long as it paves the way for a quick general election soon after."

I suspect that all this is pure wishful thinking and that there is no plan at all just a vague hope that something will turn up.

UPDATE

Meanwhile Peter Kellner has some actual research on what voters actually think.