I was rereading today this piece by Lewis Goodall from the week before the 2019 election, & it shows you that British journalism should be capable of something more than the awful safari tours of northern/Midlands towns that the Guardian keeps serving up. https://news.sky.com/story/general-election-corbyns-greatest-failure-is-not-providing-a-left-wing-alternative-to-brexit-11881161

It's based on a return visit to one place in Birmingham where Goodall had also gone before the 2017 election. Back then, he'd seen why the Tory pro-Brexit message wasn't cutting through.

Now he could see the mood changing, and Brexit was crucial to that. There's been a concerted effort to downplay the importance of Labour's shift on Brexit for the election result, but Goodall saw clear evidence of it on the ground.

He didn't downplay the importance of negative perceptions of Corbyn—but instead of taking those perceptions at face value, he dug a little deeper to ask where they were coming from. ("Any working-class voter" is probably an exaggeration here, but definitely a significant number.)

This is a really shrewd insight into the way Brexit influenced some people's thinking about politics, and it's something that appears to have completely eluded most reporters who spend an afternoon in a town, get some convenient quotes and fit them into a pre-packaged narrative.

Again, this is really sharp and quite persuasive. We're not talking about the whole electorate or the whole working class here, but a strategically important set of voters whose support Labour lost, to devastating effect.

Again, this is an important point: it's not that people are unaware of Johnson's record, but if they think all politicians are self-serving crooks anyway, better to go with one who's promising the thing they want—Brexit. His cynicism ends up discrediting politics in general.

I've ended up quoting the majority of that article, but the whole thing is well worth a careful read. Or you could find the voice of the working class in unlikely form of a Tory-voting artisan pizza entrepreneur—the marketplace of ideas is truly bountiful these days!