Will Max give big brother Boris a shot in the arm?

PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is hoping his £100bn ‘moonshot’ tests for coronavirus could save the nation. They could also provide a timely career boost for his younger half-brother, Max, who is brazenly getting in on the action. I can reveal the financier son of Boris’s father, Stanley, has joined the advisory board of health company REVIV, which has branched out into coronavirus testing.

Describing itself as the ‘global leader of wellness’, the Manchester-based firm recruited former investment banker Max in June.

Max, 35, has first-hand experience of Covid — Boris contracted the virus earlier this year as did Max’s Brazilian wife, Gabriela Maia, right, who was then pregnant with their first child.

‘The global pandemic has made everyone stop and assess their priorities in life,’ says Max. ‘Health is top of the list.’

And there is a lot of money at stake, too. REVIV will be first in the queue to try to secure a Government contract for national testing. Max, whose wife gave birth to their daughter, Ayla, in July, relocated to Britain from Hong Kong, where he was working for Goldman Sachs. An Old Etonian and Oxford graduate, he is a health fanatic who once started a fitness club and he also ran the North Korean half-marathon in

Pyongyang. Like his thrusting older siblings, he likes to make a splash.

When he worked in the Far East, Hong Kong Tatler named him as one of the island’s most eligible bachelors.

Max is close to Boris, however there probably won’t be a Johnson mass gathering this Christmas if the rule of six is still in force. REVIV’s medical director, Dr Michael Barnish, tells me: ‘PCR [swab] testing should be routinely done by everyone at regular intervals and not just in response to symptoms.’

Of course, but that’s not half as punchy as one of the PM’s latest slogans: ‘Hands. Face. Space.’