 After discussions with Lloyd and senior civil servants , Macmillan took the unprecedented step of appointing two Foreign Office cabinet ministers : Home , as Foreign Secretary , in the Lords , and Edward Heath , as Lord Privy Seal and deputy Foreign Secretary , in the Commons . With British application for admission to the European Economic Community ( EEC ) pending , Heath was given particular responsibility for the EEC negotiations as well as for speaking in the Commons on foreign affairs in general . 
