Bill Clinton summed up most elections when he said, "It's the economy". But here in the UK, this year, 2019, it isn't that simple.
Geography is a huge factor: if you live in the Southeast, then there are jobs. Around the perimeter there are a lot fewer, and the wages are much lower, plus people are competing for those jobs with migrants who have come from countries where the standard of living expectations are not so high, but may have degrees and PGs. If you attended a bog-standard comprehensive, staffed by teachers who were taught that your dreams define your horizon, and that you can do anything as long as you're passionate enough, then you are in a pickle. You don't want to work in a care home, and dream of being a game designer: either you work for peanuts on the ladder to game design, if you can find a toehold, or you work for peanuts caring (or in tourism/hospitality/retail -- substitute at will).
Locally, rural SW, I saw an apprenticeship for environmental conservation last week. It looked okay, with the National Trust, but when you read it through, they wanted a young person to dig ditches and holes for three years. Sometimes with a digger.
No one on MN wants to read this and apply it to their DC, but the world needs more ditch diggers and fewer investment bankers and vloggers, lawyers and film-makers.
For the above, you may substitute postal service, plumbers, delivery drivers, bar staff, hairdressers, waiters, chefs, warehouse operators, fork lift drivers, health care assistants and baristas. They catch fish and milk cows, drill and dig spuds, build houses and hospitals -- we all depend on them.
Anyone who does an honest day's work should be treated fairly and have a shot at making a better life. For me, that means not trapped in a stroppy class-based fight, nor does it mean vulnerable to exploitation (intellectual or financial).
On balance that makes me a fairly left-wing Tory.