You can, and, in fact, we do.
The queen's permission is required to start and stop parliamentary sessions. She literally has control over parliament in that way, and a fair few other ways which need to be legislated away post haste.
Our speaker is essentially the head of state, and is who all parliamentary business is directed to, and is the authority who says who can and cannot sit in parliamentary sessions, so is in charge of parliament in that way.
Our defacto HoS is usually a relatively unknown boring politician, and much of their duties are ceremonial and bureaucratic.
A cabinet minister as head of state seems one step away from having an American style president, so no thank you. We can keep keep the role of Speaker mostly as it is.
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