These two fare little better in the culture stakes: Hunt set up a PR agency then made a fortune from the specialist publisher Hotcourses; Ed Vaizey trained as a barrister before working in PR.
Malcolm Clark, coordinator of the Children's Food Campaign, said: "This damning assessment of the current responsibility deal cuts through the Department of Health's spin and shows up the initiative for what it is: more about positive PR for companies than effective, evidence-based new interventions to improve our diets".
PR has countless different avenues, from cutting edge consumer agencies to in-house jobs at large corporate firms.
If you send in your lead attorney or PR firm, odds are slim that trust will be built.
Seven climate activists have been arrested during a series of protests across the UK on Monday, which have seen a coal conference blockaded and the occupation of shale gas explorer's PR company.
The disclosure of Prism resulted in a cataclysm in technology circles, with tech giants launching extensive PR campaigns to reassure their customers of data security and successfully pressing the Obama administration to allow them greater leeway to disclose the volume and type of data requests served to them by the government.
Even the more self-loving members of the national team have loved themselves in a boring way, their self-regard a routine exercise in predictable, managed PR.
"There is no better PR you can do in this industry than PR for yourself," says Sam Holl, client service director at Kindred Agency.
He has also worked at the Sunday Telegraph and other newspapers in Australia and the UK, and as a ministerial media adviser and PR consultant.
What the PR battle over Brown's unexpectedly robust performance before the Chilcot inquiry failed to explain was military budgets are devolved to the service chiefs.
While giving people free medicine might seem a sure-fire winner for corporate PR and the world's poor, some practitioners have reservations.
