Its an evergreen isn't it?
Is that it against the fence.......I'm wondering if its drought
mine was a sort of compact shrubby bush with strong dark green leaves......

V. 'Eve Price' is an evergreen with small dark-green leaves, and growth is bushy, dense and rounded. Your shrub doesn't look like that to me. Did you buy it this year? If so, it may be a deciduous shrub which has been mislabelled.

I take it that its actually growing in the ground, and not in a pot? A picture closer up of the foliage would be useful, as would one showing the base of the plant and the area its planted in... but in the meantime, is your soil heavy or light? What part of the UK are you in? Any sign of infestation or disease on the leaves, branches or stems (scale insect, soft areas, weeping, white or black patches, wounds, or anything else). Have you pruned it last year or this, and if so, when?